The Savage Mind (Nature of Human Society)
by Claude L?vi-Strauss
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Author: Claude L?vi-StraussEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1968-09-15
ISBN: 0226474844
Number of pages: 310
Publisher: University Of Chicago Press
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'The Savage Mind' is probably the best known work of structural anthropology despite its difficult and technical nature. Levi-Strauss is searching for the universal structures of myth in archaic societies-through in application of Saussure's theory of signification, Levi-Strauss seeks to reveal the underlying process of mythological signification. The difficulty lies in Levi-Strauss' privileging of the synchronic over the diachronic-his approach removes the temporal aspect anthropological inquiry. There are interesting revelations in this text, such as the claim that the content of myth is arbitrary and infinitely variable. However, Levi-Strauss' attempts to reach the universal structure of myth have proven to be erroneous by all contemporary accounts. Still, this text is an important object of the history of 20th century structuralism.
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