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Myth and meaning / Claude Lévi-Strauss.

Title
Myth and meaning / Claude Lévi-Strauss.
Author
Lévi-Strauss, Claude
Publication
  • London Routledge, 2014.
  • ©1978.

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Description
xix, 48 pages; 20 cm.
Summary
PHILOSOPHY. In this short book, Levi Strauss distils a lifetime of writing into a few sharp insights, providing a cyrstalline overview of many of the basic ideas underlying his work, above all the importance of myth in understanding human culture.
Series Statement
Routledge great minds
Uniform Title
Routledge great minds.
Subject
  • Structural anthropology
  • Mythology
  • Ethnophilosophy
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Machine generated contents note: 1. Meeting of Myth and Science -- 2. `Primitive' Thinking and the `Civilized' Mind -- 3. Harelips and Twins: The Splitting of a Myth -- 4. When Myth Becomes History.
ISBN
  • 9780415854696 (paperback)
  • 0415854695 (paperback)
OCLC
857657015
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library