Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition
1st Edition
Published on 11. November 2016
352 pages
978-1-5128-0439-3 (ISBN)
Description
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.
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Reprint 2016
Language
English
Place of publication
Pennsylvania
United States
Target group
College/higher education
ISBN-13
978-1-5128-0439-3 (9781512804393)
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Pierre Maranda | Elii Koengaes Maranda
Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition
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University of Pennsylvania Press
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Content
- Intro
- 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
