==Definitions==
[Defined by [Claude Lévi-Strauss]] defined by as the '''smallest, most succinct element of meaning in a myth''', «mythème» the [[mytheme]] grounds his structuralist approach to myth criticism. Narrative unit in a myth.<ref>(cf. in particular «The Structural Study of Myth» (1955); Tristes tropiques (1955); Anthropologie structurale (1958); La pensée sauvage (1962); Les mythologiques, 4 vols. (1964-1971); and Anthropologie structurale deux (1973)).</ref>
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