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The Raw and the Cooked: Mythologiques, Volume 1
In one sentence: Save it for last, after Tristes Tropiques and Wild Thought have supplied the voice and core theory.
- Author
- Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Credits
- Claude Lévi-Strauss; translated by John & Doreen Weightman
- Edition
- University of Chicago Press, 1983 paperback (French original 1964)
- ASIN
- 0226474879
- Level
- Advanced · magnum opus
- Kindle
- Not confirmed
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Volume 1 of the four-part Mythologiques analyzes hundreds of South and North American myths as one transforming system, organized around the sensory opposition raw/cooked and its relation to nature/culture. It is Lévi-Strauss’s most ambitious and demanding structural analysis.
Why it belongs in this reading order
Save it for last, after Tristes Tropiques and Wild Thought have supplied the voice and core theory.
Who should choose it
This is the hardest and final destination 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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