The Raw and the Cooked

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The Raw and the Cooked is a seminal anthropological work by Claude Lévi-Strauss that inaugurates his Mythologiques series by structurally analyzing myths through the symbolic opposition between nature and culture.

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instanceOf anthropological work
book
aimsTo reveal underlying structures of mythical thought
analyzes relations among myths rather than single myths in isolation
author Claude Lévi-Strauss NERFINISHED
centralConcept opposition between nature and culture
opposition between raw and cooked
countryOfOrigin France
discipline anthropology
EnglishTranslator Doreen Weightman NERFINISHED
John Weightman NERFINISHED
field structural anthropology
focusesOn Amazonian myths
South American myths
myths of indigenous peoples of the Americas
followedBy From Honey to Ashes NERFINISHED
The Naked Man NERFINISHED
The Origin of Table Manners NERFINISHED
genre structuralist anthropology
hasTheme mediation between nature and culture through cooking
transformation of food as symbolic process
influenced contemporary anthropology
cultural studies
literary theory
influencedBy Saussurean linguistics
structural linguistics
language French
methodology structural analysis of myths
notableFor founding the Mythologiques series
systematic structural analysis of Amerindian myths
originalTitle Le Cru et le Cuit NERFINISHED
pageCountApprox 400
partOf Claude Lévi-Strauss's Mythologiques cycle NERFINISHED
philosophicalMovement structuralism
positionInSeries first volume
publicationYear 1964
publisher Plon NERFINISHED
series Mythologiques NERFINISHED
subject culinary symbolism
myth analysis
mythology
nature and culture
structuralism
symbolic oppositions
translatedInto English
usesConcept binary oppositions
mytheme

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Mythologiques hasTranslation The Raw and the Cooked
Jim Harrison notableWork The Raw and the Cooked