Der Weg der Masken

In "The Way of the Masks," the ethnologist Claude Lévi-Strauss applies his structuralist approach to myths for the first time to visible, artistic objects—specifically, the masks of the Indigenous peoples along the Pacific Coast in British Columbia and Alaska. The result is a fascinating little study in which Claude Lévi-Strauss demonstrates how these masks should be viewed: not as isolated objects, but embedded in transformational relationships concerning their founding myth, their function, and their material composition.