Putting Lévi‐Strauss, Festinger, Heider and Noah into the Same Boat or Some Social Psychological Contributions to the Structural Study of Myth*

Abstract

This article attempts to resolve certain ambiguities within Lévi‐Strauss's structuralist approach to myth by using the theory of cognitive dissonance to clarify the concept “opposition” and Heiderian social psychology to specify a procedure whereby a myth can be decomposed into its constituents units. The value of the refinements suggested here is illustrated through structural analyses of the Biblical account of the Flood and of Lévi‐Strauses theory itself.

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