Claude Lévi-Strauss
Histoire de lynx.
Paris: Plon, 1991. First edition.  2259024270  358 pages.
Softcover volume, measuring approximately 5.5" x 8.25", displys very light shelfwear. Binding is sound. Pages are clean and bright.
"Lévi-Strauss focuses on the opposition between Wild Cat and Coyote to explore the meaning and uses of gemellarity, or twinness, in Native American culture. The concept of dual organization that these tales exemplify is one of non-equivalence: everything has an opposite or other, with which it coexists in unstable tension. In contrast, Lévi-Strauss argues, European notions of twinness—as in the myth of Castor and Pollux—stress the essential sameness of the twins. This fundamental cultural difference lay behind the fatal clash of European and Native American peoples."