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Myth and meaning / Claude Levi-Strauss.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Lévi-Strauss, Claude, author.
- Series:
- Heritage
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Structural anthropology.
- Mythology.
- Ethnophilosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (65 pages)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Toronto, [Ontario] ; Buffalo, [New York] : University of Toronto Press, 1978.
- Language Note:
- In English.
- Summary:
- In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Levi-Strauss, one of the world's greatest living thinkers, offers the insights of a lifetime spent interpreting myths and trying to discover their significance for human understanding.
- Contents:
- Cover; Contents; An Introduction; 1 The 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; 5 Myth and Music.
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 1-4426-5411-2
- 1-4426-3862-1
- OCLC:
- 999354579
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