The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism
| Author | : Edmund Leach |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 222 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781135032937 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1135032939 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (939 Downloads) |
Download or read book The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism written by Edmund Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 222 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.