The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism

Herausgeber: Leach, Edmund

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Routledge
• Seitenzahl: 212
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2010
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 216mm x 140mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 274g
• ISBN-13: 9780415611626
• ISBN-10: 0415611628
• Artikelnr.: 34009218

Autorenporträt

Leach, Edmund

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: The Structural Study of Myth 1. Claude Levi-Strauss The Story of
Asdiwal 2. Mary Douglas The Meaning of Myth, with special reference to 'La
Geste d'Asdiwal' 3. Nur Yalman 'The Raw: The Cooked: Nature: Culture' 4.
K.O.L. Burridge Levi-Strauss and Myth Part 2: The Structural Study of
Totemism 5. E. Michael Mendelson The 'Uninvited Guest': Ancilla to
Levi-Strauss on Totemism and Primitive Thought 6. Peter Worsley Groote
Eylandt Totemism and Le Totemisme audourd'hui 7. Robin Fox Totem and Taboo
Reconsidered