<DIV>"<I>The Naked Man </I>is the fourth and final volume [of <I>Mythologiques</I>], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time. . . . Myths from North and South America are set side by side to show their transformations: in passing from person to person and place to place, a myth can change its content and yet retain its structural principles. . . . Apart from the complicated transformations discovered and the fascinating constructions placed on these, the stories themselves provide a feast."—Betty Abel, <I>Contemporary Review</I><br><BR>"Lévi-Strauss uses the structural method he developed to analyze and 'decode' the mythology of native North Americans, focusing on the area west of the Rockies. . . . [The author] takes the opportunity to refute arguments against his method; his chapter 'Finale' is a defense of structural analysis as well as the closing statement of this four-volume opus which started with an 'Ouverture' in The Raw and the Cooked."—<I>Library Journal</I><br><BR>"The culmination of one of the major intellectual feats of our time."—Paul Stuewe, <I>Quill and Quire<br></I><BR><BR></DIV>