It reads like a play.

就像戏剧一样。

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So it is not anything like, even as one reads it in retrospect, a wholesale repudiation or even really a very devastating critique of Levi-Strauss.

所以即使是我们回过头来看，这也不是对列维观点的全面否认,更不是对他的毁灭性批判。

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It reads almost exactly like the prologues to these ancient collections.

读起来几乎就像那些古代法律资料集的序言。

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