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Mythology has been an enduring part of human history (Campbell, 1972), continuing to surface worldwide despite appearing to be “arbitrary, meaningless [or] absurd” (Lévi-Strauss, 1978: 4). Barthes considers myths are “the most appropriate instrument for the ideological inversion which defines society” (1991: 142), and Williams (2003) argues that many of the categories we use to make sense of the world are propagated by a series of vectors of which the most important is myth.

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Myths and Politics: Symbolic Power in Governance and the Argument for a Mythographical Approach

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    2026年

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  • Gabriel Mondragón Toledo

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Mythology has been an enduring part of human history (Campbell, 1972), continuing to surface worldwide despite appearing to be “arbitrary, meaningless [or] absurd” (Lévi-Strauss, 1978: 4). Barthes considers myths are “the most appropriate instrument for the ideological inversion which defines society” (1991: 142), and Williams (2003) argues that many of the categories we use to make sense of the world are propagated by a series of vectors of which the most important is myth.