One of the greatest scholars of the XNUMXth century, Claude Levi-Strauss, the creator of the structural typology of myth, is also known as one of the greatest specialists in American Indian mythology.
One of the greatest scholars of the XNUMXth century, Claude Levi-Strauss, the creator of the structural typology of myth, is also known as one of the greatest specialists in American Indian mythology. His famous book “Raw and Cooked”, republished in Russian after a long break, is devoted to the analysis of the legends and traditions of the tribes of North and South America. On the material of these archaic sources, he explores the fundamental idea for all world cultures about the eternal confrontation between the chaotic (“raw”) and ordered (“cooked”) principles and reveals the hidden mechanisms of primitive thinking that are present in the unconscious of modern man and have a significant impact on his behavior and image of thought.
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