From Honey to Ashes (Introduction to a Science of Mythology Volume 2)

512 pp. "After reading Levi-Strauss on South American myth it is quite certain that one will not be able to think again of these myths as entities apart from his analysis of them, so powerful are his techniques used for divesting myth of its narrative form and substituting formal models for its content....The prose of Levi-Strauss, undeniably poetic, is as rich and varied as the South American materials he works with. A vast storehouse of botanical and zoological information provides him with a solid ground in ecology."--Joan Bamberger, New York Times Book Review