Classical Studies 2200 Chapter Notes -Sacred Mysteries, Edmund Leach

• School: Western University
• Department: Classical Studies
• Course: Classical Studies 2200
• Professor: Kendall Sharp

Document Summary

Theory: the structural study of myth clade levi-strauss. It provides a way of grappling with a problem basic to the beliefs of the people who told it. It wonders where human beings come from, and therefore, what the point of their life is. Although some elements are missing or some new ones are added, the substance of the myth remains constant: myth is always changing. We may look for an earlier version, but this is not intrinsically more valuable, since the problems are forever current. (for example, the. Oedipus story is still well-known today because we continue to find in it human values that are relevant to us. Two mirrors placed on opposite walls the mirrors would reflect each other"s content back and forth infinitely. The natural world is a continuum: it is human beings who assign oppositions, and the way they assign them tells us about how they see the world.