Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human history. by Claude Levi-Strauss. Author Claude Levi-Strauss. Subtitle Cracking the Code of Culture. 'There is no easier or quicker way than through this book into that heart of darkness Levi-Strauss calls 'totalitarian ambition of the savage mind' as it throbs beneath the surface of the 'civilized' mind.'.
