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049 _aCARIBET
050 0 0 _aGN362
_bL47 1979
082 0 0 _a303.372
100 1 _aLévi-Strauss, Claude
_cCanadian Broadcasting Corporation.
_dYang, Derui.
_9790
245 1 0 _aMyth and Meaning :
_bcracking the code of culture. /
_cLévi-Strauss, Claude.
_htxt
250 _aFirst paperback edition
264 _aUnited States of America :
_bSchocken Books ,
_c1979.
300 _a59 p.
_c21 cm.
_fbook
336 _2rdacontent
_btxt
_atxt
337 _2rdamedia
_bn
_aunmediaded
338 _2rdacarrier
_bnc
_avolume
504 _aInclude Bibliographical record (p.55)
505 _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 --
520 _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 --
650 0 _aEthnology
_xAnthropology.
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650 0 0 _aStructural anthropology.
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650 0 0 _aMythology
_xEthnophilosophy.
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650 0 0 _aFantasy
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700 _aDoniger, Wendy.
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_eFirst paperback edition
_hGN362
_kGeneral
_mL47 1979
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