Myth and Meaning (Heritage)
Claude Lévi-Strauss
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Paperback. 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. Series: Heritage. Num Pages: 64 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: HBLA1; HBTB; HPC; JFHF; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 229 x 152 x 4. .
Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human history. 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. The lectures begin with a discussion of the historical split between mythology and science and the evidence that mythic ... Read more
Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds. Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of myth in human history. 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. The lectures begin with a discussion of the historical split between mythology and science and the evidence that mythic ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
University of Toronto Press, Scholarly Publishing Division
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1978
Series
Heritage
Condition
New
Weight
1g
Number of Pages
64
Place of Publication
Toronto, Canada
ISBN
9780802063489
SKU
V9780802063489
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About Claude Lévi-Strauss
Claude Levi-Strauss (1908-2009) was a professor of social anthropology at the College de France and is the author of many distinguished works, among them The Elementary Structures of Kinship, Tristes Tropiques, Totem-ism,The Savage Mind, The Raw and the Cooked, From Honey to Ashes, and Structural Anthropology.
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