Asdiwal crumbles: a critique of Lévi‐Straussian myth analysis1
Dados Bibliográficos
| AUTOR(ES) | |
|---|---|
| ANO | 1976 |
| TIPO | Artigo |
| PERIÓDICO | American Ethnologist |
| ISSN | 0094-0496 |
| E-ISSN | 1548-1425 |
| EDITORA | Sage Publications (United States) |
| DOI | 10.1525/ae.1976.3.1.02a00090 |
| CITAÇÕES | 5 |
| ADICIONADO EM | 2025-08-18 |
| MD5 |
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Resumo
Lévi‐Strauss' use of ethnographic sources, of definitional terms, and his analytic categorization of incidents in the Asdiwal story is arbitrary, inconsistent, and even distorts the story text on occasion. His argument, in addition to being circular in places, is internally inconsistent, especially as regards the claim that when myths make negative evaluations, they always involve the opposite of real life, a claim which is, in fact, both supported and refuted.