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Claude Lévi-Strauss · 1964
A structural anthropological analysis of indigenous American myths, beginning with a Bororo myth from central Brazil and progressively examining mythological systems across neighboring and distant societies to uncover the logic of sensory qualities and abstract conceptual structures.
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What this book knows
Myth is not primitive thought but structural logic: binary oppositions in cooking, nature, and culture encode how humans think universally.
mind-and-cognition
Around a germinal molecule, sequences arranged in transformation groups aggregate, reproducing its structure — a multidimensional body whose central parts reveal organization while confusion reigns at the periphery.
MLCE-RC-004Myth sequences and myths in reciprocal relation are treated as instrumental parts of a musical work — isomorphism appearing between the system of myths, linguistic in order, and the system of music.
MLCE-RC-030Music and mythology confront man with virtual objects whose shadow alone is actual — conscious approximations of ineluctably unconscious truths.
MLCE-RC-020transformation
To obtain Bororo transformations: fire → water, jaguar ≡ fire → serpent ≡ water, tobacco exhaled → tobacco ingested — the mythic system converts itself by rule.
MLCE-RC-098Vomiting as regression from culture to nature is one reading; in many South American cases its semantic function is exactly inverse — a means of transcending culture rather than returning to nature.
MLCE-RC-125mortality
To live long, heroes should not have heard a faint sound; elsewhere the fault is smelling putridity — or failing to smell it. Death codes invert systematically across myths.
MLCE-RC-148Illuminates
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