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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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Maranda, Elii Köngäs, Maranda, Pierre, 1930-2015
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Philadelphia, Pa. : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]
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