The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism
The Structural Study of Myth and Totemism

Author: Edmund Leach

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-04-15

Total Pages: 200

ISBN-13: 1135032947

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Designed to provoke controversy, the papers in this volume concentrate on two main themes: the study of myth and totemism. Starting with an English translation of La Geste d'Asdiwal, which is widely considered to be the most brilliant of all of Lévi-Strauss's shorter expositions of his technique of myth analysis, the volume also contains criticism of this essay. The second part of the volume discusses how far Lévi-Strauss's treatment of totemism as a system of category formation can be correlated with the facts that an ethnographer encounters in the field. First published in 1967.

Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algya̲x)
Ergativity in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algya̲x)

Author: Jean Gail Mulder

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 1994-01-01

Total Pages: 276

ISBN-13: 9780520097889

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00 This work examines the morphological and syntactic dimensions of ergativity (i.e., an intransitive subject is treated in the same manner as a transitive object and differently from the transitive subject) in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax). This language is very highly morphologically ergative and the distribution of ergativity is conditioned by several different factors that are related through their coding of transitivity. Syntactically, the language is not highly ergative, but none of the cross-linguistic definitions of subject can account for the ergativity that does exist. This work examines the morphological and syntactic dimensions of ergativity (i.e., an intransitive subject is treated in the same manner as a transitive object and differently from the transitive subject) in Coast Tsimshian (Sm'algyax). This language is very highly morphologically ergative and the distribution of ergativity is conditioned by several different factors that are related through their coding of transitivity. Syntactically, the language is not highly ergative, but none of the cross-linguistic definitions of subject can account for the ergativity that does exist.

The Attraction of Opposites
The Attraction of Opposites

Author: David Maybury-Lewis

Publisher: University of Michigan Press

Published: 1989

Total Pages: 382

ISBN-13: 9780472080861

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Explores why societies throughout the world organize social thought and institutions in patterns of opposites