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Sto caricando le informazioni... Il crudo e il cotto (1964)di Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. The four volumes of Mythologiques are the sort of thing the term "tour-de-force" was meant for. Levi-Strauss is a magician. While he's working, you follow wherever he leads your attention, and every step seems plausible; by the end you have seen such a display of synthesis that you really *want* to be persuaded. Simply explicating, as he does, what is for most the wholly unfamiliar territory of native American mythology, from Patagonia to Alaska, would be accomplishment enough. But as he unpacks, he also enacts a complex account of how human culture works. One myth leads on to another, stories invert and turn inside-out like silk scarves becoming doves: heroes seduce, tricksters get fooled themselves, animals get their spots or lose their voices, and all the while each of several basic categories of human existence (male/female, sky/earth, clothes/nudity, and yes, raw/cooked) is shuffled, explicated and blended into a new tertium quid. Even when the innevitable delayed response of "hey, wait a minute..." eventually catches up with you, there lingers a sense of privilege and awe. Some may find the content of Levi-Strauss' message ultimately reductionist or ultimately empty; but his *style* alone will make you think about the human mind in a whole new way. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle SerieMythologiques (Volume 1)
This book examines the myths of the South American Indians and demonstrates how these can be reduced to a comprehensible psychological pattern. Moving from minute detail to bold speculation, Levi-Strauss argues that there is no fundamental break between the primitive mind and more evolved attitudes. He analyzes 250 myths to reveal their interrelation and basic structure and, by cross-referencing to European customs, he sets them in a general cultural context. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Reflects the lifelong exploration of C L-S into the relations between the “sensible” and the “intelligible” – from raw sensory perception, which is an especially rich experience in oral cultures, to abstract intellectual Aristotelianisms.
C L-S writes with literary and naturalist allusions, from the encompassed conditions of the "field", lighting up what would otherwise be a dry academic exercise.