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