210 Pages
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Routledge
210 Pages
by
Routledge
216 Pages
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Routledge
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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.
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
Biography
Leach, Edmund
'A quite engrossing set of disquisitions on various aspects of the study of categories, their formation and arrangement.' - Times Literary Supplement
