Download or read book The Savage Mind written by Claude Lévi-Strauss and published by Weidenfeld & Nicolson. This book was released on 1988-12-31 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is a classic work by one of the intellectual giants of the twentieth century. It is an original and brilliant examination of the structure of the thought of primitive' peoples, and has contributed significantly to our understanding of the way the human mind works. The English translation was originally published in 1966 and is now available from Oxford University Press.