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The structural study of myth and totemism / edited by Edmund Leach.

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  • ISBN: 0422717304
  • ISBN: 9780422717304
  • ISBN: 0422725307
  • ISBN: 9780422725309
  • Physical Description: xix, 185 pages : maps, diagrams ; 23 cm.
  • Publisher: London : TavistockPublications, 1967.

Content descriptions

General Note:
"[T]his volume derives mainly from material presented at a conference on recent anthropological studies of myth and totemism sponsored by the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth and held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 24-26 June 1974"--T.p. verso.
Bibliography, etc. Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Formatted Contents Note:
The story of Asdiwal / Claude Lévi-Strauss ; translated by Nicholas Mann -- The meaning of myth, with special reference to 'La Geste d'Asdiwal' / Mary Douglas -- 'The raw: the cooked:: nature: culture', observations on Le Cru et le cuit / Nur Yalman -- Lévi-Strauss and myth / K.O.L. Burridge -- The 'uninvited guest': Ancilla to Lévi-Strauss on totemism and primitive thought / E. Michael Mendelson -- Groote Eylandt totemism and Le Totémisme aujourd'hui / Peter Worsley -- Totem and taboo reconsidered / Robin Fox.
Subject:
Lévi-Strauss, Claude.
Structural anthropology.
Mythology.
Totemism.

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Lummi Library GN 21 .L4 S7 1967 282451 Stacks Available -