Anthropology, folklore, and myth /

Anthropology, folklore, and myth / [print] edited with introductions by Robert A. Segal. - New York : Garland Pub., (c)1996. - xi, 412 pages ; 24 cm. - Theories of myth ; 2 .

Includes bibliographical references.

The forms of folklore: prose narratives Myth Introduction to Zuni mythology The concept of myth and the problem of psychocultural evolution Mythology and folklore Lord Raglan's hero, a cross cultural critique Folklore and myth The eclipse of solar mythology Levy-Bruhl's theory of primitive mentality The nature and function of myth Mythology Golden bough or gilded twig? / Edmund R. Leach The transition to the higher mental types Myth in primitive psychology On the philosophy of mythology The Aryan expulsion-and-return-formula in the folk and hero tales of the Celts The hero of tradition Myths and folktales Wild men and beast-children William Bascom Ruth Benedict Ruth Benedict David Bidney Franz Boas Victor Cook H.R. Ellis Davidson Richard M. Dorson E.E. Evans-Pritchard E.O. James Andrew Lang Lucien Levy-Bruhl Bronislaw Malinowski Friedrich Max Muller Alfred Nutt Lord Raglan Stith Thompson Edward Burnett Tylor.



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Folk literature--History and criticism.
Mythology--History.
Anthropology.

GR67.A584 1996

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