Claude Levi-Strauss: Mask and Myth

• Published in: Issues in Ethnology and Anthropology
• Main Author: Senka Kovač
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English; French; srp
• Published: University of Belgrade 2009
• Subjects: Levi-Strauss; mask; myth; Salish; Kwakiutl; Tlingit; hist; lang; Pacific; Strauss; tlingit; Tsimshian; Tsimshian*
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.21301/eap.v4i2.7; https://doaj.org/article/7e7ff6f29cd24568a6c79f21a8ce1ac2

This paper discusses a relationship between mask and myth and how the appropriate analysis by Claude Levi-Strauss may make clearer a complex field of masks in the part of North America. Claude Levi-Strauss stressed the multi-layered character of myth structure. Similar multi-layered character can be...