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Structural analysis of oral tradition / Edited by Pierre Maranda and Elli Köngäs Maranda.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Publication details: Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press 1971.Description: xxxiv, 324 p. : illusISBN:
  • 0812276159
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 398.1208 MAR.S
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Contents:
The deduction of the crane, by C. Lévi-Strauss.--Kimil: a category of Andamanese thought, by E. R. Leach.--The wife who goes out like a man: reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook myth, by D. Hymes.--The interpretation of myth: theory and practice, by A. J. Groimas.--The syntax of symbolism in a Ndembu ritual, by V. Turner.--Class, clown, and cosmology in Javanese drama: an analysis of symbolic and social action, by J. L. Peacock.--The making and breaking of friendship as a structural frame in African folk tales, by A. Dundes.--The logic of riddles, by E. K. Maranda.--Folk song texts as culture indicators, by A. Lomax and J. Halifax.--Myth and anti-myth among the Timbira, by R. Da Matta.--An experiment: suggestions and queries from the desk, with a reply from the ethnographer, by A. Dundes [and others]
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The deduction of the crane, by C. Lévi-Strauss.--Kimil: a category of Andamanese thought, by E. R. Leach.--The wife who goes out like a man: reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook myth, by D. Hymes.--The interpretation of myth: theory and practice, by A. J. Groimas.--The syntax of symbolism in a Ndembu ritual, by V. Turner.--Class, clown, and cosmology in Javanese drama: an analysis of symbolic and social action, by J. L. Peacock.--The making and breaking of friendship as a structural frame in African folk tales, by A. Dundes.--The logic of riddles, by E. K. Maranda.--Folk song texts as culture indicators, by A. Lomax and J. Halifax.--Myth and anti-myth among the Timbira, by R. Da Matta.--An experiment: suggestions and queries from the desk, with a reply from the ethnographer, by A. Dundes [and others]

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