The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism
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Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Published:26th Feb '04
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Designed to provoke controversy, the papers in this volume concentrate on two main themes: the study of myth and totemism. Starting with an English translation of La Geste d'Asdiwal, which is widely considered to be the most brilliant of all of Lévi-Strauss's shorter expositions of his technique of myth analysis, the volume also contains criticism of this essay. The second part of the volume discusses how far Lévi-Strauss's treatment of totemism as a system of category formation can be correlated with the facts that an ethnographer encounters in the field.
First published in 1967.
'A quite engrossing set of disquisitions on various aspects of the study of categories, their formation and arrangement.' - Times Literary Supplement
ISBN: 9780415330725
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Weight: 550g
210 pages