About the author (1983) Claude Levi-Strauss, a French anthropologist, was the founder of structural anthropology. This theoretical position assumes that there are structural propensities in the human mind that lead unconsciously toward categorization of physical and social objects, hence such book titles as The Raw and the Cooked (1964). Claude Levi-Strauss was born in Belgium in 1908, son of a. A tetralogy consisting of The Raw and the Cooked (1964). From Honey to.

Find more information about: OCLC Number: 756455476 Notes: Translation of Le cru et le cuit. Reproduction Notes: Electronic reproduction. [S.l.]: HathiTrust Digital Library, 2011.

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Contents: 1: Theme and variations -- Bororo song -- Ge variations -- 2: The 'good manners' sonata -- A short symphony -- 3: Fugue of the five senses -- The oppossum's cantata -- 4: Well-tempered astronomy -- Three-part astronomy -- Double inverted canon -- Toccata and fugue -- Chromatic piece -- 5: Rustic symphony in three movements -- Divertissement on a folk theme -- Bird chorus -- The wedding. Other Titles: Cru et le cuit. Responsibility: Translated from the French by John and Doreen Weightman.

Why are the stars placed just this way? The stories of how humans are connected to animals - all peoples have stories and myths to explain the incomprehensible 'why' of existence. Levi-Strauss was bucking traditional anthropological thought by contending that there isn't much distance between the primitive mind and the supposedly evolved mind. It won't surprise anyone to know that many collected myths from oral tradition cultures were mutated by the missionaries who then brought the altered stori Why are the stars placed just this way? The stories of how humans are connected to animals - all peoples have stories and myths to explain the incomprehensible 'why' of existence. Levi-Strauss was bucking traditional anthropological thought by contending that there isn't much distance between the primitive mind and the supposedly evolved mind.

It won't surprise anyone to know that many collected myths from oral tradition cultures were mutated by the missionaries who then brought the altered stories to our awareness. Levi-Strauss's dedication to truth using his philosophical humanitarian mind is a gift we all need to unwrap more thoroughly. I read this book in the late 80s with the ambition of getting through all four volumes of mythologiques. That didn't happen. However, I did learn a lot about ethnographic paradigmatic structuralism from this book.

The book starts out making an analogy between music and myth. A piece of music is only music when it has one or more motifs which repeat and vary in structured ways. So avant-garde atonal serial music is not music. Myth works exactly the same way; recurring motifs hold a story together I read this book in the late 80s with the ambition of getting through all four volumes of mythologiques. That didn't happen.