Near fine cloth copy in a near-fine, very slightly edge-nicked and dust-dulled dust wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains particularly well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Physical description: (11), 387 pages, 4 plates: ill., maps, music; 24 cm. Subjects: Indians of South America Brazil Religion and mythology. Structural anthropology. Mythology. 1 Kg.

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Title: Introduction to a science of mythology; translated from the French by John and Doreen Weightman. 1 The raw and the cooked
Publisher: London: Cape
Publication Date: 1970
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0224618687
ISBN 13: 9780224618687
Binding: Hardcover
Edition: 1st English Edition.
Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
Weight: 1 kilogram

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La fascinaci�n que los mitos ejercen sobre sus creyentes es apenas mayor que la fascinaci�n que ejercen sobre los acad�micos que los estudian. Este es el caso de L� su m�todo -una de las m�s celebres aportaciones a la disciplina antropol�gica del siglo XX- parte de la idea de que todo pensamiento humano puede ser reducido a un patr�n fundamental, que consiste, por una parte, en la oposici�n de dos categor�as y, por la otra, en la mediaci�n gracias a una tercera.En este segundo volumen de Mitol�gicas, L�vi-Strauss emprende un an�lisis de las relaciones entre los mitos de la miel y el tabaco. La miel tiene como caracter�stica la seducci�n y el deseo, conduce al hombre a una degradaci�n y representa la ca�da al estado salvaje. El tabaco, por el contrario, se quema y, por lo tanto, se cocina; representa dominio de la naturaleza y supone la vuelta al estado de cultura. A trav�s de la oposici�n miel-tabaco el autor descubre significados insospechados y penetra en lo m�s profundo de los procesos de pensamiento. El resultado no podr�a ser m�s el hombre civilizado no se distingue del primitivo en su calidad de pensamiento, sino solo en los medios para expresarlo.

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