Sacred narrative, readings in the theory of myth / edited by Alan Dundes.
Contributor(s): Dundes, Alan
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TextPublisher: Berkeley : University of California Press, [1984]Copyright date: ©1984Description: ix, 352 pages : illustrations ; 24 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 0520051920 (pbk.); 0520051564Subject(s): MythGenre/Form: Mythology.DDC classification: 291.1/3 LOC classification: BL304 | .S19 1984Bibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-347) and index.| Item type | Current library | Shelving location | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [343]-347) and index.
The forms of folklore : prose narratives / William Bascom -- Theories concerning "nature myths" / Jan De Vries -- The problem of defining myth / Lauri Honko -- On defining myths / G.S. Kirk -- Slippery words : myth / J. W. Rogerson -- The fall of man / James G. Frazer -- The truth of myth / Raffaele Pettazzoni -- Myth and story / Theodor H. Gaster -- Cosmogonic myth and "sacred history" / Mircea Eliade -- An ideological dichotomy : myths and folk beliefs among the Shoshoni / Ake Hultkrantz -- The creation myths of the Noth American Indians / Anna Birgitta Rooth.
The cultural-historical background of myths on the separation of sky and earth / K. Numazawa -- The role of myth in life / Bronislaw Malinowski -- The plasticity of myth : cases from Tikopia / Raymond Firth -- The flexibility of myth / Th. P. Van Baaren -- The mythic / Eric Dardel -- The psychology of the child archetype / C.G. Jung -- Joseph Campbell's theory of myth / Robert A. Segal -- Earth-driver : creation of the mythopoeic male / Alan Dundes -- The story of Asdiwal / Claude Levi-Strauss -- The world conception of Lajos Ami, storyteller / Sandor Erdesz -- The myth of Washington / Dorothea Wender.