Claude Levi-Strauss, the founder of structural anthropology, holds the chair of social anthropology at the College de France and in 1973 was elected to the Academie Francaise. In addition to Tristes Tropiques, he is known for such seminal publications as The Savage Mind, Structural Anthropology, The Elementary Structures of Kinship, The Way of the Masks, and the highly acclaimed series A Science of Mythology, which includes The Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to Ashes, The Origin of Table Manners, and The Naked Man.Sylvia Modelski, a graduate of the London School of Economics and Political Science, received her early education in French. Her previous translations include Levi-Strauss's The Way of the Masks (University of Washington Press)