Sacred narrative readings in the theory of myth

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Dundes, Alan, ed (ed)
Format: Book
Language:Inglés
Published: Berkeley [etc.] : University of California Press cop. 1984
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See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991007281949706719
Table of Contents:
  • Conté: 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 / Åke Hultkrantz
  • The creation myths of the North 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. (cont.) Joseph Campbell's theory of myth / Robert A. Segal
  • Earth-diver : creation of the mythopoeic male / Alan Dundes
  • The story of Asdiwal / Claude Lévi-Strauss
  • The world conception of Lajos ámi, storyteller / Sándor Erdész
  • The myth of Washington / Dorothea Wender