The Raw and the Cooked is the first volume from Mythologiques, a structural study of Amerindian mythology written by French anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss. It was originally published in French as Le Cru et le Cuit. Although the book is part of a larger volume Lévi-Strauss writes that it may be appreciated on its …
The Anthropologie structurale deux is a collection of texts by Claude Lévi-Strauss that was first published in 1973, the year Lévi-Strauss was elected to the Académie française. The texts are in turn a result of an earlier collection of texts, Anthropologie structurale that he had published in 1958. The work is …
Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human history. In these five lectures originally prepared for Canadian …
『野生の思考』は、1962年にフランスの人類学者・クロード・レヴィ=ストロースによって発表された著作をさす。表紙には「思考」と「パンジー」を掛けて野生種のパンジーである三色スミレが描かれる。 本書は、レヴィ・ストロースが本書を発表する以前の著作『親族の基本構造』と後に発表する著作『神話論理』のあいだに位置づけられる。同年に『今日のトーテミスム』も発表されているが、該書は本書の「歴史的批判的序説」に当たるとされ、相互に緊密な関係にある。 …