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Myths get thought in man unbeknowest to him1 As a structuralist, Levi-Strauss offers a number of important reinterpretations of the kinds of ideological thought and practice with symbolic anthropology, within his analysis of the four Winnebago myths, he sheds light on how miscellanea within myth reflects Winnebago society universally. indoors separately of these myths, the way one goes about living their life determines what happens to them afterwards their life on earth comes to an end. Through using Levi- Strauss analysis of each of the four myths, I am going to demonstrate how phantasmal miscellany occurs within the Winnebago culture and since structure is entirely relational ... any study can only arise for us out of the habitus the kinship, mythological, or social structures with which anthropology confronts us. Structuralism is in a way, attempting to create codes by heart and soul of which to communicate. To be able to understand our own culture it is simply dialect ic, this is as it is content for our own society moreover when looking at alien cultures it can only be structural containing knowledge of- and, as such part of the subjectivity of our own society which communicates to us the objectiveness of another. The chapter, which I am evaluating, is primarily based on myths collected by Radin whilst creating his ethnography of the Winnebago culture. Levi-Strauss chose myths that are all of the same belief but they resist slightly in their forms the person experiences death but each form differs slightly in each myth, which further develops through the ability to transmigrate lives through the act of heroic traits. Within the first myth, warriors die in battle defending their tribe. This highlights the concept of the capital of life... ...ve that is ambivilant spirits combining effective and evil features. So ends the myth. Levi-Strauss concludes that that this myth highlights the Winnebago believe that those who live extraordinary li ves, yet have qualities that are negative, will neither live nor die. Through the aim of cross analysis, Levi- Strauss was able to theorise how the people of the Winnebagos interpret and experience how the change affects the spirit of these people. In only pursuing the betterment of the group and not as an individual within the society you are rewarded by the spiritual world, which in turn affects the way in which the members of these tribes act as they would be punished, which we see with the transformation from human to animal. He demonstrates how we can grasp a good source of information from the symbols that are represented within the culture.1 Strauss, Levi,