The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism

Leach, Edmund

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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.

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Book information

ISBN:	9780415611626
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Imprint:	Routledge
Pub date:	11 Nov 2010
Edition:	1st edition
DEWEY:	301
DEWEY edition:	22
Language:	English
Number of pages:	190
Weight:	276g
Height:	140mm
Width:	216mm
Spine width:	15mm