"The Savage Mind" is a book by anthropologist Claude Lévi-Strauss, published in 1962. It explores the ways in which different cultures understand and interpret the world around them. Lévi-Strauss argues that so-called "primitive" societies possess complex systems of thought that are just as valid as those of modern, industrialized cultures. The book contrasts the rationality of Western thought with the symbolic and mythological reasoning found in indigenous cultures. Lévi-Strauss emphasizes that all human societies create meaning through their own frameworks, challenging the notion that one way of thinking is superior to another.