Structural Study of Myth and Totemism

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 Lèvi-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 Lèvi-Strauss's treatment of totemism as a system of category formation can be correlated with the facts that an ethnographer encounters in the field. First published in 1967.Leach, Edmund is the author of 'Structural Study of Myth and Totemism', published 0011 under ISBN 9780415330725 and ISBN 0415330726.