02382nam a22003137a 4500003000600000005001700006008004100023020001800064020001500082040003400097050002000131082001200151100007700163245008600240250002800326264005600354300002400410336002500434337002800459338002700487504004200514505035900556520101000915650003601925650003601961650003901997650001202036700002002048pucpr20241025155758.0061212s1979 fri 001 0 eng  a9780805210385 a0805210385 apucprbengcpucprdpucprerda00aGN362bL47 197900a303.3721 aLévi-Strauss, ClaudecCanadian Broadcasting Corporation.dYang, Derui.10aMyth and Meaning :bcracking the code of culture. /cLévi-Strauss, Claude.htxt aFirst paperback edition aUnited States of America :bSchocken Books ,c1979. a59 p.c21 cm.fbook 2rdacontentbtxtatxt 2rdamediabnaunmediaded 2rdacarrierbncavolume aInclude Bibliographical record (p.55) aContents : 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 --  aEver 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 -- 0aEthnologyxAnthropology.2Local00aStructural anthropology.2Local00aMythologyxEthnophilosophy.2Local00aFantasy aDoniger, Wendy.