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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 (-5[1])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 (10[1])cast tricksters like Raven and Coyote as “mediators” of life and death. (-5[1])This thinker claimed “myth is language” and thus analyzed myths in linguistically inspired mythemes. This structural anthropologist studied Bororo myth in The Raw (10[1])and the Cooked. For 10 points, name this French author of Mythologiques and The Savage Mind. ■END■ (10[3]0[2])

ANSWER: Claude Lévi-Strauss
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