Claude Lévi-Strauss

Le Cru et le Cuit est un ouvrage de l'ethnologue français Claude Lévi-Strauss publié en 1964. Il s'agit du premier tome des Mythologiques. Dans cet ouvrage fondamental Lévi-Strauss tente de montrer que les qualités purement sensibles et empiriques comme le cru ou le cuit se laissent articuler en un réseau abstrait de …

Professor Lévi-Strauss’s first major work, Les Structures élémentaires de la Parenté, has acquired a classic reputation since its original publication in 1949; and it has become the constant focus of academic debate about central theoretical concerns in social anthropology. It is, however, a long and difficult book …

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 …