Author: Leach, Edmund Ronald ; editor:
Title: The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism
Description: London, Tavistock Publications, 1967. orig.cloth, dustwrapper.. 22x14cm, xix,185 pp. Series: Association of Social Anthropologists, A.S.A. Monographs, 5.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ This 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 1964". Contains 7 papers. Includes: [Claude Lévi-Strauss] "The Story of Asdiwal"; [Mary Douglas] "The Meaning of Myth, with Special Reference to ' La Geste d'Asdiwal'; [Nur Yalman] The Raw : The Cooked :: Nature :: Culture - Observations on Le Cru et le cuit; [K.O.L. Burridge] Lévi- Strauss and Myth; [E. Michael Mendelson] The 'Uninvited Guest': Ancilla to Lévi-Strauss on Totemism and Primtiive Thought; [Peter Worsley] Groote Eylandt Totemism & Le Totémisme aujourd'hui; [Robin Fox] Totem and Taboo Reconsidered.

Keywords: Social Anthropology, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Structuralism, Structuralist, Social Theory, Sociology, Myth, Mythology, Totemism, Ethnology