Reading
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1958. "The Structural Study of Myth" ((313-317)
Summary and Take-Aways
Observation: myths can, basically, be anything, and yet myths in various cultures are very similar.
With the content of myths as data, the challenge is to identify the underlying universal structures governing them.
The fundamental logic is one of opposites and the resolution of difference.
Multimedia
References and Further Reading
Wikipedia, Claude Lévi-Strauss
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1949. The Elementary Structures of Kinship
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1955. Tristes Tropiques
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1958. Anthropologie structurale (1963, Structural Anthropology)
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1962. Le Totemisme aujourdhui (1962, Totemism)
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. 1962. La Pensée sauvage (1962, The Savage Mind)
Fry, Paul. 2009. "Semiotics and Structuralism" lecture in Lit 300 at Yale University.
