Claude Lévi-Strauss (1963), Structural Anthropology, trans. Claire Jacobson and Brooke Grundfest Schoepf, New York: Basic Books, 410 pp.; French original Anthropologie structurale, Paris: Plon, 1958 — https://lccn.loc.gov/63017344
Key takeaways
Filed, not read. Known here by what it is standardly cited for: the essays apply the method of structural (Saussurean and Prague-school) linguistics to kinship, myth and social organisation, treating them as systems whose terms have meaning only in their relations and oppositions. “The Structural Study of Myth” analyses a myth as the set of all its variants, organised by oppositions and their mediation.
Standing in the record
Filed on 2026-10-09 at the owner’s request, as one of the works in the reference list of the owner’s working manuscript (October 2026) that the record did not yet hold. See the curation entry of that day.
Unavailable because no lawful full text could be reached (see the history
note), so no NOTE is filed. Two routes are left for the owner to decide. The
1955 Journal of American Folklore printing of “The Structural Study of
Myth” is openly viewable at the Internet Archive; reading it would be a
reading of that article, filed as its own work, not of this book. The open
Internet Archive scan of the 1958 Plon edition would be a reading of the
book, but its not-in-copyright flag is doubtful, and it was not used.