Lévi-Strauss Explores Myth as a Key to Enlightenment
At a glance:
- Series: Great Events from History II: Arts and Culture Series
- Categories: Literature, Publishing, Science, Language, Linguistics, Philology, Mythology, Folklore
- Subcategories: Legends, Myths
- Curriculum: American History 1951-present, 20th & 21st Century European History, French History, Latin American History
- Geographical Location: Paris
- Date: 1964-1971
Article abstract: Claude Lévi-Strauss examined the myths of North, Central, and South America, finding in them an underlying structure of thought that he saw as fundamental to an understanding of the world.
Summary of Event
Claude Lévi-Strauss is the premier anthropologist of a school known as structuralism. In 1964, he published Le cru et le cuit, the first volume of his masterpiece, Mythologiques (1964-1971; Introduction to a Science of Mythology, 1969-1981). It appeared in English as The Raw and the Cooked in 1969 and was...
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