The Naked Man: Vol 4

The Naked Man is the fourth and final volume [of Mythologiques], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time… . Myths from North and South America are set side by side to show their transformations: in passing from person to person and place to place, a myth can change its content and yet retain its structural principles… . Apart from the complicated transformations discovered and the fascinating constructions placed on these, the stories themselves provide a feast.–Betty Abel, Contemporary Review Levi-Strauss uses the structural method he developed to analyze and ‘decode’ the mythology of native North Americans, focusing on the area west of the Rockies… . [The author] takes the opportunity to refute arguments against his method; his chapter ‘Finale’ is a defense of structural analysis as well as the closing statement of this four-volume opus which started with an ‘Ouverture’ in The Raw and the Cooked.–Library Journal

The culmination of one of the major intellectual feats of our time.–Paul Stuewe, Quill and Quire