This thinker analyzed a Bororo myth involving a boy who is forced to fashion buttocks for himself out of pounded tuber-dough after trying to climb to a macaw nest.
This thinker analyzed a Bororo myth involving a boy who is forced to fashion buttocks for himself out of pounded tuber-dough after trying to climb to a macaw nest. He referenced Marcel Mauss in claiming that the incest taboo originates in a desire to encourage exogamy and wrote about the distinction between the engineer and bricoleur in one work. This man's theories are heavily influenced by the linguistic theories of Saussure and are developed in excruciating detail in a series containing The Raw and the Cooked, his Mythologiques. For 10 points, name this author of The Savage Mind, the French founder of structural anthropology.
This thinker analyzed a Bororo myth involving a boy who is forced to fashion buttocks for himself out of pounded tuber-dough after trying to climb to a macaw nest.
Claude Levi-Strauss