<Tr> <Th> ISBN </Th> <Td> 978 - 2 - 259 - 00413 - 8 </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> OCLC </Th> <Td> 4955922 </Td> </Tr> <P> The Raw and the Cooked (1964) is the first volume from Mythologiques, a structural study of Amerindian mythology written by French anthropologist Claude Lévi - Strauss . It was originally published in French as Le Cru et le Cuit . Although the book is part of a larger volume Lévi - Strauss writes that it may be appreciated on its own merits, he does not consider this first volume a beginning: "since it would have developed along similar lines if it had had a different starting point". </P> <P> In the introduction, Lévi - Strauss writes of his confidence that "certain categorical opposites drawn from everyday experience with the most basic sorts of things--e.g.' raw' and' cooked,' ' fresh' and' rotten,' ' moist' and' parched,' and others--can serve a people as conceptual tools for the formation of abstract notions and for combining these into propositions ." Beginning with a Bororo myth, Lévi - Strauss analyses 187 myths, reconstructing sociocultural formations using binary oppositions based on sensory qualities . The work thus presents an adaptation of Ferdinand de Saussure's theories of structural linguistics applied to a different field . </P>

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