December 10, 2008
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Salvatore D’Onofrio, « Le discours du mythe », Gradhiva, ID : 10.4000/gradhiva.529
This article describes the largely ignored ethnological studies carried out around the 1960s. It covers some of the aspects of Lucien Sebag’s conversion from philosopher to ethnological theorist, a transition which stemmed in particular from his work with Claude Lévi-Strauss and field studies of the Aché-Guayaki in eastern Paraguay and of the Ayoré-Moros in Paraguayan and Bolivian Chaco. The article highlights Sebag’s contribution to the structural analysis of myth and, going beyond the Marxist and psychoanalytical approach, the new perspectives based on structural linguistics that he started to open in anthropology.