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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808514203321

Autore

Lévi-Strauss Claude

Titolo

Myth and meaning / / Claude Levi-Strauss

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 1978

©1978

ISBN

1-4426-5411-2

1-4426-3862-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (65 pages)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

301

Soggetti

Structural anthropology

Mythology

Ethnophilosophy

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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.