This book is one of those that, being written by talented and diversely educated people, causes wide resonance and interest far beyond the boundaries of the scientific direction in which they were created. The work of the famous ethnographer and philosopher Claude Lévi-Strauss is studied and analyzed not only by his colleagues, but also by sociologists, linguists, psychologists, and literary scholars. His name is put on a par with such outstanding thinkers as Freud, Camus, Chomsky, and is classified as one of the “masters of modern thought.” It is popular not only in scientific circles, but also in the world of art. For a wide range of specialists in the humanities, teachers and students of higher educational institutions, everyone interested in issues of human science.