The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1 / Edition 1

by Claude Lévi-Strauss

Overview

"Lévi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom . . . a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments. . . . [The Raw and the Cooked] adds yet another chapter to the tireless quest for a scientifically accurate, esthetically viable, and philosophically relevant cultural anthropology. . . . [It is] indispensable reading."--Natural History

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780226474878
Publisher:	University of Chicago Press
Publication date:	03/15/1983
Series:	Mythologiques Series , #1
Edition description:	Reprint
Pages:	402
Product dimensions:	5.20(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) is the most important anthropologist of the twentieth century, a leader in structuralist thought, and one of the key figures in the history of modern thought. He held the chair of social anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982 and was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973. His many influential works include Tristes Tropiques, Structural Anthropology, Totemism, and Wild Thought, among others. The Press has published many English editions of his works.

Table of Contents

Illustrations
Table of Symbols
Overture
Part One - Theme and Variations
1. Bororo Song
a. The Bird-Nester's Aria
b. Recitative
c. First Variation
d. Interlude in a Discrete Mode
e. Continuation of the First Variation
f. Second Variation
g. Coda
2. Ge Variations
a. First Variation
b. Second Variation
c. Third Variation
d. Fourth Variation
e. Fifth Variation
f. Sixth Variation
g. Recitative
Part Two
1. The "Good Manners" Sonata
a. The Profession of Indifference
b. Caititu Rondo
c. Childish Civility
d. Suppressed Laughter
2. A Short Symphony
a. First Movement: Ge
b. Second Movement: Bororo
c. Third Movement: Tupi
Part Three
1. Fugue of the Five Senses
2. The Opossum's Cantata
a. The Opossum's Solo
b. Rondo
c. Second Solo
d. Concluding Aria: Fire and Water
Part Four - Well-Tempered Astronomy
1. Three-Part Inventions
2. Double Inverted Canon
3. Toccata and Fugue
a. The Pleiades
b. The Rainbow
4. Chromatic Piece
Part Five - Rustic Symphony in Three Movements
1. Divertissement on a Folk Theme
2. Bird Chorus
3. The Wedding
Bestiary
Bibliography
Index of Myths
a. By Number Order and Subject
b. By Tribe
General Index