Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev and “Mythologies of Peoples of the World”: Structuralism and History (On the Story of an Encyclopedia)
[Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev i “Mify narodov mira”: strukturalizm i istoriia (k istorii sozdaniia entsiklopedii)]
Type of publication: Research Article
Submitted: 11.01.2025
Accepted: 01.08.2025
About author(s)
Vladimir Petrukhin | http://orcid.org/0000-0002-6151-4262 | vladimir.petrukhin@gmail.com | Institute of Slavic Studies, Russian Academy of Sciences (32a Leninsky prospekt, Moscow, 119991, Russia)
Keywords
S.A. Tokarev, encyclopedia “Mythologies of Peoples of the World”, structuralism, Claude Lévi-Strauss, historical method
Abstract
In the course of heated debates, the editor-in-chief of the encyclopedia “Mythologies of Peoples of the World” [Mify narodov mira], Sergei Tokarev, who had not previously accepted a structuralist analysis of myths, admitted the validity of alternative approaches to studying mythology and thus was able to finalize work on the seminal publication which marked a certain turn in understanding the history of world culture.
Citation
Petrukhin, V.Y. 2025. Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev i “Mify narodov mira”: strukturalizm i istoriia (k istorii sozdaniia entsiklopedii) [Sergei Aleksandrovich Tokarev and “Mythologies of Peoples of the World”: Structuralism and History (On the Story of an Encyclopedia)]. Etnograficheskoe obozrenie 5: 40–45. https://doi.org/10.7868/S3034627425050034
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