The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism (Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology & Ethnography) - Hardcover

 
9780415330725: The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism (Routledge Library Editions: Anthropology & Ethnography)
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ISBN 10: 0415330726 ISBN 13: 9780415330725
Publisher: Routledge, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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Leach, Edmund

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Publisher
Routledge
Publication date
2004
Language
English
ISBN 10 
0415330726
ISBN 13 
9780415330725
Binding
Hardcover
Edition number
1
Number of pages
210
Editor
Leach Edmund

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