First Edition, First Printing in U.S. -- Includes 39 illustrations, 4 plates, a table of symbols, bibliography, index of myths and general index. Translated from French by John and Doreen Weightman. -- Hardcover, 746 pages. Condition: near fine, with near fine dust jacket (slight color change to spine). ISBN 0060125845.

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Title

The Naked Man. Introduction to a Science of Mythology: 4.

Publisher

New York, Harper Row.

Publication Date

1981

Language

English

ISBN 10

0060125845

ISBN 13

9780060125844

Binding

Hardcover

Edition

1st Edition

Dust Jacket Condition

Dust Jacket Included

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"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

"L�vi-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

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Text: English, French (translation)

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