The Naked Man - Introduction to a Science of Mythology Vol. 4 by Claude Levi-Strauss

This is a second-hand copy of the book The Naked Man - Introduction to a Science of Mythology Vol. 4 by Claude Levi-Strauss. Condition: This is a used book in good condition. The dustjacket has Sun fading to the spine and has been price clipped. The dustjacket has light rubbing and creasing - see photos. Publisher: Harper & Row Year: 1981 ISBN: 0060125845 Format: hardback with dustjacket Pages: 746 Condition: Used (Good) " The Naked Man is the fourth and final volume [of Mythologiques ], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time. . . . Myths from North and South America are set side by side to show their transformations: in passing from person to person and place to place, a myth can change its content and yet retain its structural principles. . . . Apart from the complicated transformations discovered and the fascinating constructions placed on these, the stories themselves provide a feast." "Lévi-Strauss uses the structural method he developed to analyze and 'decode' the mythology of native North Americans, focusing on the area west of the Rockies. . . . [The author] takes the opportunity to refute arguments against his method; his chapter 'Finale' is a defense of structural analysis as well as the closing statement of this four-volume opus which started with an 'Ouverture' in The Raw and the Cooked."