The Raw and the Cooked

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"Lévi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity & human wisdom...a deliberate stylist with profound convictions & convincing arguments...[The Raw & the Cooked] adds yet another chapter to the tireless quest for a scientifically accurate, esthetically viable & philosophically relevant cultural anthropology...[It's] indispensable reading."--Natural History Illustrations Table of Symbols Overture 1 Theme & variations Bororo song 2 Ge variations The "good manners" sonata A short symphony 3 Fugue of the five senses The oppossum's cantata 4 Well-tempered astronomy Three-part Inventions Double inverted canon Toccata & fugue Chromatic piece 5 Rustic symphony in three movements Divertissement on a folk theme Bird chorus The wedding Bestiary Bibliography Index of Myths General Index