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The Way of the Masks
In one sentence: Its concrete objects and shorter scope make the structural method easier to watch in action.
- Author
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Credits
- Claude Lévi-Strauss; translated by Sylvia Modelski
- Edition
- University of Washington Press, 1988 paperback (French original 1975)
- ASIN
- 029596636X
- Level
- Intermediate · applied structuralism
- Kindle
- Not confirmed
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A focused, illustrated study of Salish and Kwakiutl mask traditions of the Pacific Northwest Coast. It shows how the masks of neighboring peoples form a transformational system: structuralism applied to material art rather than myth.
Why it belongs in this reading order
Its concrete objects and shorter scope make the structural method easier to watch in action.
Who should choose it
This is the concrete applied case before the largest myth project in this five-book path. Its role is to prepare the next step without pretending every reader needs to begin with advanced theory.
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