The Naked Man: Mythologiques, Volume 4 (Mythologiques Series)

The Naked Man: Mythologiques, Volume 4 (Mythologiques Series) by Lévi-Strauss, Claude. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780226474960.

"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 Review "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."—Library Journal "The culmination of one of the major intellectual feats of our time."—Paul Stuewe, Quill and Quire