This book's seventh chapter discusses the names that humans give animals and concludes that birds are "metaphorical human beings" and that racehorses are "metaphorical inhuman beings." Its final chapter accuses Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason of ignoring the wealth of beliefs and customs of less modern cultures. This book argues that the mental lives of those cultures is shaped by precise and subtle distinctions in its second chapter, "The Logic of Totemic Classifications." It describes the deep and vivid knowledge of plant life among native peoples in its first chapter, "The Science o
This book's seventh chapter discusses the names that humans give animals and concludes that birds are "metaphorical human beings" and that racehorses are "metaphorical inhuman beings." Its final chapter accuses Sartre's Critique of Dialectical Reason of ignoring the wealth of beliefs and customs of less modern cultures. This book argues that the mental lives of those cultures is shaped by precise and subtle distinctions in its second chapter, "The Logic of Totemic Classifications." It describes the deep and vivid knowledge of plant life among native peoples in its first chapter, "The Science of the Concrete," which compares the title entity to the mental state of the bricoleur. Published alongside its author's book Totemism in 1962, for 10 points, name this book about the intelligence of primitive societies, written by Claude Levi-Strauss.
This book's seventh chapter discusses the names that humans give animals and concludes that birds are "metaphorical human beings" and that racehorses are "metaphorical inhuman beings.
{The Savage Mind} [or {La Pensee Sauvage}]