Mythology
Myth and Meaning (2009, originally published 1978) by Claude Lévi-Strauss, London & New York: Routledge - A Review. I have been interested in mythology since my school days. This classic, which runs to a total of 48 pages only, is the transcript of the 1977 MASSEY LECTURES. Entitled as above, these talks were broadcast on the CBC Radio series, IDEAS, in December 1977. They were assembled from a series of lengthy conversations between Professor Lévi-Strauss and Carole R. Jerome , producer in the Paris bureau of the CBC. The lectures were expanded for publication. Claude Lévi-Strauss (1908 – 2009) was a French anthropologist and ethnologist (ethnology is that branch of anthropology which studies peoples and tribes), and has been called, along with James George Frazer , the "father of modern anthropology". He argued that the "savage" mind had the same structures as the "civilized" mind and that human characteristics are the sam...