- Myth
- In his book the savage mind his analysis begins
- People are subjected to an unconscious feeling of implementing order in
the world
- Not merely practical or function, but derived from the desire to know.
- Criticism
- Universalism why do the principles of structures have to be the same
everywhere?
- Myth he doesnt explain myth in terms of what real people think and
practice in everyday life, but in terms of hypothetical mental principles.
Practical concerns affect the way people think.
- Ethnography some of his data was not very accurate.
- His model is too artificial; too intellectual. His model is quite ethnocentric,
may not make sense to others.
- Authority arrogant and old-fashioned way of thinking.
- Women in his kinship theory, they appear voiceless objects of exchange.
Women appear just as the sisters of brothers the brothers are the real
agents.