"Every word, like a sacred object, has its place. No pr?cis is possible. This extraordinary book must be read."—Edmund Carpenter, New York Times Book Review "No outline is possible; I can only
"L?vi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom . . . a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments. . . . [The Raw and t
"The Origin of Table Manners is the third volume of a tetralogy devoted to American Indian mythology. Unlike the first two volumes (The Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to Ashes), which are devoted to
A milestone in the study of culture from the father of structural anthropology. This watershed work records Claude Levi-Strauss's search for "a human society reduced to its most basic expression." F
