"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