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The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism

Edmund Leach

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English
Routledge
11 November 2010
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 Levi-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 Levi-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.

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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United Kingdom
Dimensions:   Height: 216mm,  Width: 138mm, 
Weight:   390g
ISBN:   9780415611626
ISBN 10:   0415611628
Pages:   190
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Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active

Leach, Edmund

Reviews for The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism

'A quite engrossing set of disquisitions on various aspects of the study of categories, their formation and arrangement.' - Times Literary Supplement


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