Nabbed this definition of Levi-Strauss’ term, “bricolage” off this definitions site.

(French, ‘doing odd jobs’). A characteristic (according to C. Levi-Strauss) of the early human mind, in contrast to modern scientific thinking. But bricolage is entirely rational (i.e. not pre-rational) in its own way. He introduced the term in The Savage Mind. A bricoleur is one who improvises and and uses any means or materials which happen to be lying around in order to tackle a task: ‘The bricoleur is adept at executing a great number of diverse tasks; but unlike the engineer, he does not subordinate each of them to the availability of raw materials and tools, conceptualized and procured specifically for this project; his instrumental universe is closed, and the rule of his game is to make do with the means at hand.’ In the making of myth, bricolage is the use of whatever happens to be ‘lying around,’ so that myth is both rational and improvisatory.

Also found this bit on a site about John Lennon.

For Levi-Strauss, myth is like a cognitive maneuver which tries to solve the puzzle of the human condition. Levi-Strauss claims the analogy between myth and bricolage. Bricolage is the working process of a kind of handyman who uses only a limited repertoire of tools and materials at hand to construct his project. Mythical thought is a kind of intellectual ‘bricolage’ which expresses itself by means of a heterogeneous and limited repertoire. How does myth think? Myth thinks by providing “a logical model capable of overcoming a contradiction” (Levi-Strauss, 1963). Since this is an impossible achievement, myth “grows spiral-wise until the intellectual impulse which has produced it is exhausted. Its growth is a continuous process, whereas its structure remains discontinuous.”

Also, this page is kind of interesting: Bricolage As Revolt.