Structural Anthropology
These 18 essays are arranged in four major sections, giving a bird`s-eye view of the problems of modern ethnology. Perspective Views contains essays on the origins, scope, and future of social anthropology. Social Organization presents two important essays on kinship. The third and longest section, Mythology and Ritual . includes such influential studies as The Story of Asdiwal and How Myths Die . Finally in Humanism and the Humanities , Livi-Strauss stresses the humanistic dimension of cultural anthropology.

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