{"product_id":"15373-levi-strauss-claude-rueff-jacques-darwin-charles-l-origine-des-manieres-de-table-the-origin-of-table-manners-inscribed-to-jacques-rueff","title":"Levi-Strauss, Claude. (1908–2009) [Rueff, Jacques. (1896–1978)] [Darwin, Charles. (1809–1882)] L'Origine des Manieres de Table [The Origin of Table Manners]- Inscribed to Jacques Rueff","description":"\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e8vo. Paperback. 478 pp.  Edges a little stained and worn, else fine. Signed and inscribed on the half title by the important French anthropologist and ethnologist to Jacques Rueff, economist and adviser to Charles de Gaulle.\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\"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. . . . [Lévi-Strauss] raises issues and then resolves them with the suspenseful cunning of a mystery novelist.\"—John Updike, \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eNew Yorker \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\n\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e\"\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eThe Origin of Table Manners\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e is the third volume of a tetralogy devoted to American Indian mythology. Unlike the first two volumes (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eThe Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to Ashes\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e), which are devoted to South American myths, the present one establishes relations with North America, which is the subject of the fourth (\u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eThe Naked Man\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e). . . . 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. . . . \u003c\/span\u003e\u003ci style=\"\"\u003eThe Origin of Table Manners\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cspan style=\"\"\u003e 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.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv style=\"\"\u003e\u003cbr style=\"\"\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46093582598303,"sku":"15373","price":450.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0512\/4826\/7423\/files\/Levi-Strauss_2C_Claude_Manieres_Signed_book_15373a.jpg?v=1722188983","url":"https:\/\/www.schubertiademusic.com\/products\/15373-levi-strauss-claude-rueff-jacques-darwin-charles-l-origine-des-manieres-de-table-the-origin-of-table-manners-inscribed-to-jacques-rueff","provider":"Schubertiade Music and Arts","version":"1.0","type":"link"}