Lévi-Strauss, Claude Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. Yang, Derui.
Myth and Meaning : cracking the code of culture. / txt
Lévi-Strauss, Claude.
- First paperback edition
- 59 p. 21 cm. book
Include Bibliographical record (p.55)
Contents : Foreword by Wendy Doniger vii -- A Note from the Publisher xvii -- An Introduction 3 -- One: The Meeting of Myth and Science 5 -- Two: ‘Primitive’ Thinking and the ‘Civilized’ Mind 15 -- Three: Harelips and Twins: The Splitting of a Myth 25 -- Four: When Myth Becomes History 34 -- Five: Myth and Music 44 -- Select Bibliography 55 --
Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human history. In these five lectures originally prepared for Canadian radio, Claude Levi-Strauss offers, in brief summations, the insights of a lifetime spent interpreting myths and trying to discover their significance for human understanding -- The lectures begin with a discussion of the historical split between mythology and science and the evidence that mythic levels of understanding are being reintegrated in our approach to knowledge. In an extension of this theme, Professor Levi-Strauss analyzes what we have called "primitive thinking" and discusses some universal features of human mythology. The final two lectures outline the functional relationship between mythology and history and the structural relationship between mythology and music --
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Ethnology--Anthropology. Structural anthropology. Mythology--Ethnophilosophy. Fantasy