ISSN:
0567-414X
Language:
English
Pages:
xix, 185 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karte
Series Statement:
ASA Monographs 5
Keywords:
Strukturalismus Totemismus
;
Mythologie
Abstract:
Designed to provoke controversy, the papers in this volume concentrate on two main themes: the study of myth and totemism. Starting with an English translation of La Geste d'Asdiwal, which is widely considered to be the most brilliant of all of Levi-Strauss's shorter expositions of his technique of myth analysis, the volume also contains criticism of this essay. The second part of the volume discusses how far Levi-Strauss's treatment of totemism as a system of category formation can be correlated with the facts that an ethnographer encounters in the field.
Description / Table of Contents:
Edmund Leach: Introduction -- Part 1: The Structural Study of Myth -- 1. Claude Levi-Strauss: The Story of Asdiwal -- 2. Mary Douglas: The Meaning of Myth, with special reference to 'La Geste d'Asdiwal' -- 3. Nur Yalman: 'The Raw: The Cooked: Nature: Culture' -- 4. K.O.L. Burridge: Levi-Strauss and Myth -- Part 2: The Structural Study of Totemism -- 5. E. Michael Mendelson: The 'Uninvited Guest': Ancilla to Levi-Strauss on Totemism and Primitive Thought -- 6. Peter Worsley: Groote Eylandt Totemism and Le Totemisme audourd'hui -- 7. Robin Fox Totem and Taboo Reconsidered -- Notes on contributors -- Author index and bibliography cross-reference
Note:
Enthält 7 Beiträge"Material presented at a conference on recent anthropological studies of myth and totemism [...] and held at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, 24-26 June 1964" (Rückseite des Titelblattes)
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