num_pages: 402
description: "Lévi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom . . . a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments. . . . [The Raw and the Cooked] adds yet another chapter to the tireless quest for a scientifically accurate, esthetically viable, and philosophically relevant cultural anthropology. . . . [It is] indispensable reading."—Natural History 
language: English
title: The Raw and the Cooked
titlecomplete: The Raw and the Cooked (Mythologiques, Vol 1)
genres: France, Philosophy, Food, Science, Academic, Mythology, Nonfiction, Theory, Social Science, Anthropology
ratings_count: 332
series: Mythologiques 
publisher: University of Chicago Press