Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition /
Thirteen anthropologists, including Claude Levi-Strauss, Dell Hymes, and Edmund R. Leach, examine myths, rituals, fold dramas, folk tales, riddles, and folk songs, all in the context of the cultures in which they occur.
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Otros Autores: | , |
Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia, Pa. :
University of Pennsylvania Press,
[2016]
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Colección: | Folklore and Folklife
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Introduction
- I. MYTH
- The Deduction of the Crane
- Kimil: A Category of Andamanese Thought
- The "Wife" Who "Goes Out" Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook Myth
- The Interpretation of Myth: Theory and Practice
- II. RITUAL
- The Syntax of Symbolism in an Ndembu Ritual
- III. FOLK DRAMA
- Class, Clown, and Cosmology in Javanese Drama; An Analysis of Symbolic and Social Action
- IV. FOLK TALE
- The Making and Breaking of Friendship as a Structural Frame in African Folk Tales
- V. RIDDLE
- The Logic of Riddles
- VI. FOLK SONG
- Folk Song Texts as Culture Indicators
- VII. MYTH AND CULTURE CONTACT
- Myth and Anti-myth among the Timbira
- An Experiment: Suggestions and Queries from the Desk, with a Reply from the Ethnographer