本书是国际知名文化研究学者约翰斯•道雷所著之经典教材，在西方学界产生的影响经久不衰，是公认的媒介与文化研究领域最为权威的综述性著作之一。
本书对文化研究这一学科的历史、传统及当下的发展状况进行了深入、细致的分析，广涉文化主义、结构主义、马克思主义、女性主义和后现代主义等诸多的社会科学思潮，梳理了国际学界对这一领域的最新研究成果，是文化研究、媒介研究、大众传播学、文艺批评以及新闻学等领域的学者与研究生阅读、参考的重要文献。

Why have people from different cultures and eras formulated myths and stories with similar structures? What does this similarity tell us about the mind, morality, and the structure of the world itself? Maps of Meaning offers a provocative new hypothesis that explores the connection between what modern neuropsychology tells us about the brain and what rituals, myths and religious stories have long narrated. Drawing insights from the worlds of neuropsychology, cognitive science, and Freudian and Jungian approaches to mythology and narrative, Jordan B. Peterson argues that myths and religious stories have a structure determined by the nature of the mind, and play a key role in the regulation of human emotions.
Ambitious in scope and daring in its exploration of ideas, Maps of Meaning presents a rich theory that makes the wisdom and meaning of myth accessible to the critical modern mind.</P>