 | Myth and Meaning Subjects: Structural anthropology -- Addresses essays lectures; Mythology -- Addresses essays lectures; Philosphy Primitive -- Addresses essays lectures; In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude Lévi-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. Lévi-Strauss Claude : Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908-2009) was a professor of social anthropology at the Collège 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 . |
