ABSTRACT
The focus of mythological inquiry (the essence of the science of man) is on the articulations between cultures. The ethnologist has just as much right to translate a primitive myth into his (the ethnologist's) perspective as does the member of the indigenous society who reworks the myth in his native language. A useful way to approach the relative difference in cognition, which further reveals Levi-Straus's procedure, is to consider the radical separation between good and evil, and their transformation into concepts, a symptom of archaic and modern civilizations. Levi-Strauss feels that since the person is a psychological-social-biological reflex, human meaning is and must be illusory. This monolithic vision is the logical abreaction to bourgeois atomization; it represents a pseudo-order, a collective deriving from the mechanical association of isolates and that, in turn, reflects the evolved bourgeois consciousness examining the wreckage of contemporary society.
