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Unlike a historian, an anthropologist drawing on fieldwork cannot - not even in theory - control all the available evidence and render it "truthfully." A community is not a finite archive. Unlike a psychiatric expert, moreover, an anthropologist cannot claim to have met alone with the subject - a "culture." In order to obtain a more in-depth analysis of the anthropological subject, the book undertakes a psychoanalytical investigation, with the "toolkit" provided by theoreticians of the field in the wake of Jacques Lacan, of Clifford Geertz's "Deep Play. Notes on the Balinese Cockfight."

The Gernet Centre was founded as a place where the structural method could be applied to the classics. ‘Structuralists’ attribute the survival, origin and function of myths to common crosscultural factors they identify as ‘structures’. As this book, first published as The Structuralists on Myth in 1992 explains, these structures are bundles of information not obvious either to the narrator or to the listener. The bundles are collected features that reveal either the reasons for the survival of myths, or their origins, or their functions within their contexts. The structuralists consider themselves to have talents as the collectors from myths of these bundles of information.

This bibliography of semiotic studies covering the years 1975-1985 impressively reveals the world-wide intensification in the field. During this decade, national semiotic societies have been founded allover the world; a great number of international, national, and local semiotic conferences have taken place; the number of periodicals and book series devoted to semiotics has increased as has the number of books and dissertations in the field. This bibliography is the result of a dedicated effort to approach complete coverage.