Myth and Meaning Bruce D. Perry Part of Collins ‘My First’

Part of Collins ‘My First’ series of reference books for young readers

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is colored by the concepts and categories that we inherit from our culture's interpretive tradition and that we use to comprehend what we read

Myth and Meaning Bruce D. Perry Part of Collins ‘My First’The anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss was one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. His work has had a profound impact not only within anthropology but also linguistics, sociology and philosophy. In this short book he examines the nature and role of myth in human history, distilling a lifetime of writing into a few sharp insights. It is a crystalline overview of many of the basic ideas underlying his work, including the theory of