The Savage Mind
- ISBN
- 0226474844
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press
- Published
- 1966
- Language
- English
- Pages
- 290
- Genre
- Anthropology
- Location
- 023
About the book
The Savage Mind by anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss is a groundbreaking book about how the human mind works. Lévi-Strauss disproves the old idea that traditional or tribal societies have primitive ways of thinking, showing instead that their minds are just as complex, logical, and smart as modern scientific thinkers. The book explains how people in every culture use plants, animals, myths, and customs to categorize their surroundings and make sense of the world around them.