The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism
The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism edited by Edmund R. Leach
English | February 26, 2004 | ISBN: 0415330726, 0415611628 | True EPUB | 210 pages | 1.6 MB
English | February 26, 2004 | ISBN: 0415330726, 0415611628 | True EPUB | 210 pages | 1.6 MB
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.