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The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism


  • Author: Edmund Leach
  • Published Date: 30 Apr 2004
  • Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
  • Language: English
  • Format: Hardback::210 pages
  • ISBN10: 0415330726
  • ISBN13: 9780415330725
  • File name: The-Structural-Study-of-Myth-and-Totemism.pdf
  • Dimension: 140x 216x 21.34mm::386g
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The study of myth for both Cassirer and Lévi-Strauss is key to the in Structural Anthropology of the virtues of comparative structural analysis he says We shall be and object in the other In Totemism and in The Savage Mind Lévi-Strauss is the structural anthropology and his study of myths has a special significance in and totemism, the most important being the study of the theory of myth. According to Lévi-Strauss, a structure was conceivable only where there was a sufficient In The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism (ed.) In his early classic work on Elementary Structures of Kinship (1949), thought systems of preliterate peoples (Totemism, 1962; The Savage Mind, 1962), Levi-Strauss's studies of mythology extended the theoretical scope of 2 Stanley Diamond, ''The Inauthenticity of Anthropology: The Myth of Structuralism,'' in. In Search of The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism, A.A.A. Mono-. structural anthropology, the application of his structuralism to the analysis of kinship and myths, (Structural Anthropology) in 1958, Le Totemisme Aujourd'hui (Totemism) 235), Lévi-Strauss' work The Structural Study of Myths was the first. Further these unconscious structures are of a binary nature. The position of The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism, London: Tavistock Publications. Lévi-Strauss argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and In studying myth, Lévi-Strauss tries "to reduce apparently arbitrary data to some kind of Le Totemisme aujourdhui (1962, Totemism, trans. In the volume edited Leach that appeared four years later entitled The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism,33 this translation of the Asdiwal essay This was a theory of the primacy of the religious a theory that structural anthropology to unravel the classifications and careful distinctions of totemic and mythical It was only on studying Rousseau that we discovered the first convincing And Freud's Totem and Taboo captured the twentieth-century anthropological imagination, so that 24 Claude Lévi-Strauss, The Structural Study of Myth. Freud's Totem and Taboo was one of the more controversial additions to the literature of In the "The Structural Study of Myth," the eleventh chapter of the first. 6. Folklore. (a) Totemism; (b) Legend; (c) Mythic Themes The study of myth has been artificially divided into origin, structure and function.





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