Myth and Meaning Ted Kaptchuk and the major social trends

and the major social trends affecting our future

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Taught everywhere—from high school classrooms to graduate seminars in creative writing—it has become required reading for any American and continues to challenge readers in their perceptions of fact and fiction

Tom Knight has worked in journalism for over 30 years and in that time has covered eight Olympic Games and travelled extensively

Myth and Meaning Ted Kaptchuk and the major social trendsThe anthropologist Claude Levi Strauss was one of the greatest intellectuals of the twentieth century. His work has had a profound impact not only within anthropology but also linguistics, sociology and philosophy. In this short book he examines the nature and role of myth in human history, distilling a lifetime of writing into a few sharp insights. It is a crystalline overview of many of the basic ideas underlying his work, including the theory of