Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds.
In these five lectures originally prepared for the CBC, Claude L vi-Strauss, one of the world\'s greatest living thinkers, offers the insights of a lifetime spent interpreting myths and trying to discover their significance for human.
Only now are we coming to a fuller appreciation of the nature and role of Myth in human history.
Ever since the rise of science and the scientific method in the seventeenth century, we have rejected mythology as the product of superstitious and primitive minds