The Raw and the Cooked

New York, NY: Harper & Row. Very Good+. 1969. 1st Edition USA; First Printing. Hardback. First Edition USA (1969) , so stated. Very Good+ in Very Good DJ: shows a mild bump to the lower rear corner and just a touch of shelving wear to the lower extremities; very slight cock to the spine; a former owner's name and date at the upper corner of the front free endpaper; the binding is secure; the text is clean. Free of creased or dog-eared pages in the text. Free of any underlining, hi-lighting or marginalia or marks in the text. A handsome copy, structurally sound and tightly bound, showing mild wear and a couple of minor, unobtrusive imperfections. Not so very far from 'As New'. 8vo. (9.5 x 6.5 x 1.35 inches) . Bestiary, Bibliography. Index of Myths. General Index. Translated by John and Doreen Weightman from the French Edition of 1964. Language: English. Weight: 28.9 ounces. Hardcover with DJ. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist whose work was key in the development of the theories of structuralism and structural anthropology. He held the chair of Social Anthropology at the Collège de France between 1959 and 1982, was elected a member of the Académie française in 1973 and was a member of the School for Advanced Studies in the Social Sciences in Paris. He received numerous honors from universities and institutions throughout the world. Lévi-Strauss argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the same everywhere. These observations culminated in his famous book Tristes Tropiques (1955) that established his position as one of the central figures in the structuralist school of thought. As well as sociology, his ideas reached into many fields in the humanities, including philosophy. Structuralism has been defined as "the search for the underlying patterns of thought in all forms of human activity." ; Introduction to the Science of Mythology; Vol. 1; Large 8vo 9" - 10" tall; xiii, 387 pages .