The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism
Download or Read eBook The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism PDF written by Edmund Leach and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-04-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
| Author | : Edmund Leach |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 200 |
| Release | : 2013-04-15 |
| ISBN-10 | : 9781135032944 |
| ISBN-13 | : 1135032947 |
| Rating | : 4/5 (44 Downloads) |
Book Synopsis The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism by : Edmund Leach
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.
