Myth and Meaning

Part of the new Routledge Classics series

An outstanding figure in mid-twentieth century intellectual life, Levi-Strauss is influential far beyond the boundaries of France or the French language

Levi-Strauss is considered one of the founding thinkers of anthropology as a serious field of study, even though part of the generation after anthropologists Malinowski and Mauss

Myth and Meaning is one of the most famous anthropology texts of the twentieth century and the Levi-Strauss text studied on first year anthropology courses

Immensely influential in the structuralist movement and one of its founding texts

Levi-Strauss is also author of the key Introduction to the Work of Marcel Mauss (Routledge, 1987)