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This thinker posited that harelips represent “incipient twinhood” and explain why the Algonquin’s supreme being of a hare can house a wise benevolent deity and a “ridiculous clown who goes from mishap to mishap” during his 1977 Massey Lectures for the CBC. This thinker argued that fairytales and myths dealing with the same events can coexist in a society while championing paradigmatic approaches to mythology over syntagmatic ones in a long running theoretical debate with (*) Vladimir Propp. This thinker first cast tricksters like Raven and Coyote (-5[1])as “mediators” of life and death. This thinker claimed “myth is language” and thus analyzed myths in linguistically inspired mythemes. This structural anthropologist (10[1])studied Bororo myth in The Raw and the Cooked. For 10 points, name this French author of Mythologiques (10[1]-5[1])and The Savage Mind. ■END■ (10[2])

ANSWER: Claude Lévi-Strauss
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