Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition
eBook - PDF

Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition

  1. 352 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition

About this book

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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Table of contents

  1. Contents
  2. Introduction
  3. I. MYTH
  4. The Deduction of the Crane
  5. Kimil: A Category of Andamanese Thought
  6. The "Wife" Who "Goes Out" Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook Myth
  7. The Interpretation of Myth: Theory and Practice
  8. II. RITUAL
  9. The Syntax of Symbolism in an Ndembu Ritual
  10. III. FOLK DRAMA
  11. Class, Clown, and Cosmology in Javanese Drama; An Analysis of Symbolic and Social Action
  12. IV. FOLK TALE
  13. The Making and Breaking of Friendship as a Structural Frame in African Folk Tales
  14. V. RIDDLE
  15. The Logic of Riddles
  16. VI. FOLK SONG
  17. Folk Song Texts as Culture Indicators
  18. VII. MYTH AND CULTURE CONTACT
  19. Myth and Anti-myth among the Timbira
  20. An Experiment: Suggestions and Queries from the Desk, with a Reply from the Ethnographer