LoginMyth and Meaning: Cracking the Code of Culture
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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 Canadian radio, Claude Lévi-Strauss offers, in brief summations, 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 levels of understa
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Manufacturer: Schocken Books
Release date: 1 March 1995
ISBN-10 : 0805210385 | ISBN-13: 9780805210385
Release date: 1 March 1995
ISBN-10 : 0805210385 | ISBN-13: 9780805210385
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