Myth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture

Fantastic little book. It is a collection of Lévi-Strauss's spoken answers to a set of interview questions. Yes, it would be very nice if it were twice as long. Given what it is, depth and detail is sacrificed in the name of accessibility and clarity. And even at that, Lévi-Strauss manages to cite numerous books and monographs here. Perhaps most memorable and interesting in this short collection of spoken essays is the last, which is a discussion of how myth and music are very similar branches of the original art and technology of language. Very stimulating stuff, and I would say a good, short introduction to the French structuralist perspective on mythology and culture in general.