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.--Betty Abel, Contemporary ReviewLevi-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.--Library Journal
The culmination of one of the major intellectual feats of our time.--Paul Stuewe, Quill and Quire
- ISBN10 0060125845
- ISBN13 9780060125844
- Publish Date 1 January 1981
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Publish Country US
- Imprint HarperCollins Publishers
- Edition Us ed.
- Format Hardcover
- Pages 746
- Language English