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ISBN: PB: 9780226474939

University of Chicago Press

November 1990

552 pp.

23x15 cm

8 maps and line drawings

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Origin of Table Manners

Mythologiques, Volume 3

Table of Symbols
Foreword

Part One: The Mystery of the Woman Cut Into Pieces
1. At the Scene of the Crime
2. A Clinging Half

Part Two: From Myth to Novel
1. The Days and the Seasons
2. The Daily Round

Part Three: The Canoe Journey of the Moon and the Sun
1. Exotic Love
2. The Stars in their Courses

Part Four: Exemplary Little Girls
1. On Being a Young Lady
2. The Porcupine's Instructions

Part Five: A Wolfish Appetite
1. The Embarrassment of Choosing
2. A Dish of Tripe Mandan Style

Part Six: An Even Balance
1. Groups of Ten
2. Three Adornments

Part Seven: The Rules of Good Breeding
1. The Susceptible Ferryman
2. A Short Treatise on Culinary Anthropology
3. The Moral of the Myths

Bibliography
Index of Myths
General Index

About the Author

French anthropologist and ethnologist, and has been called, along with James George Frazer, the "father of modern anthropology". His works include the four volumes of "Mythogiques", "The Savage Mind", "Structural Anthropology II", "The Jealous Potter", and (with Didier Eribon) "Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss", all published by the University of Chicago Press.

Reviews

"'The Origin of Table Manners' is the third volume of a tetralogy devoted to American Indian mythology. Unlike the first two volumes ('The Raw and the Cooked', 'From Honey to Ashes'), which are devoted to South American myths, the present one establishes relations with North America, which is the subject of the fourth ('The Naked Man')... In the course of the analysis, the myths link up with ideas of more general interest. Thus, we find discussions of numeration, of morals, and of the origin of the novel... 'The Origin of Table Manners' is thus of special interest to students of American Indian mythology, although it contains ideas of interest to other fields and even to the general reader" – Daniel C. Raffalovich, American Anthropologist

"An immense anthropological erudition is here wielded by one of the world's finest minds, and the myths themselves have never been taken more seriously... [Levi-Strauss] raises issues and then resolves them with the suspenseful cunning of a mystery novelist" – John Updike, New Yorker