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mytheme: a standalone construct

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Anthropology

the smallest unit of meaning in a myth, a relation between elements, whose combinations Lévi-Strauss analyzed structurally.

In anthropology, mytheme refers to the smallest unit of meaning in a myth, a relation between elements, whose combinations Lévi-Strauss analyzed structurally. This meaning comes from Levi-Strauss (1955) in The Journal of American Folklore.[1]

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structural study of myth1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructfolklore1 fields · 1 citationsanchor · a standalone constructmyth2 fields · 2 citationsjingle · one word, two constructs

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  1. Levi-Strauss, C. (1955). The Structural Study of Myth. The Journal of American Folklore, 68(270), 428. https://doi.org/10.2307/536768

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