Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition / Elii Köngäs Maranda, Pierre Maranda.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Maranda, Pierre, comp.

Contributor:

Maranda, Elii Köngäs, Editor.

Maranda, Pierre, Editor.

Series:

Anniversary Collection

Folklore and Folklife

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk literature--History and criticism.

Folk literature.

Folklore--Structural analysis.

Folklore.

Oral tradition.

Tales--Structural analysis.

Tales.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (326 p.)

Edition:

Reprint 2016

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, [2016]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

The Deduction of the Crane

Kimil: A Category of Andamanese Thought

The "Wife" Who "Goes Out" Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook Myth

The Interpretation of Myth: Theory and Practice

The Syntax of Symbolism in an Ndembu Ritual

Class, Clown, and Cosmology in Javanese Drama; An Analysis of Symbolic and Social Action

The Making and Breaking of Friendship as a Structural Frame in African Folk Tales

The Logic of Riddles

Folk Song Texts as Culture Indicators

Myth and Anti-myth among the Timbira

An Experiment: Suggestions and Queries from the Desk, with a Reply from the Ethnographer

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

ISBN:

9781512804393

1512804398

OCLC:

979757595