The Structural study of myth and totemism / edited by Edmund Leach
- Bib ID:
- 558956
- Format:
- Book
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- London : Tavistock Publications, 1967
- xix, 185 p. : ill., maps ; 22 1/2 cm.
- Series:
- A.S.A. monographs ; 5.
- Summary:
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Includes contributions; C. Levi-Strauss - The story of Asdiwal, translated by N. Mann; M. Douglas The meaning of myth; with special reference to La Geste dAsdiwal; N.O. Yalman - The raw; the cooked; nature; culture, observations on Le cru et le cuit; K.O.L. Burridge - Levi-Strauss and myth; E.M. Mendelson - The Uninvited Guest; ancilla to Levi-Strauss on totemism and primitive thought; P.M. Worsley - Groote Eylandt totemism and Le Totemisme aujourdhui; R. Fox - Totem and Taboo reconsidered; item by Worsley listed separately in bibliography; material derived from A.S.A. sponsored conference on recent anthropological studies of myth and totemism held at London University, June 1964.
- Notes:
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- Label mounted on t.p.: Barnes & Noble, New York.
- "[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 1963."
- Includes bibliographies.
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