Sacred narrative, readings in the theory of myth
By: edited by Alan Dundes.
Contributors: Dundes, Alan.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 1984
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
Number of pages: 352
Subjects: Myth; Mythology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [343]-347) and index.
Table of contents: title: The forms of folklore : prose narratives / William Bascom; title: Theories concerning "nature myths" / Jan De Vries; title: The problem of defining myth / Lauri Honko; title: On defining myths / G.S. Kirk; title: Slippery words : myth / J.W. Rogerson; title: The fall of man / James G. Frazer; title: The truth of myth / Raffaele Pettazzoni; title: Myth and story / Theodor H. Gaster; title: Cosmogonic myth and "sacred history" / Mircea Eliade; title: An ideological dichotomy : myths and folk beliefs among the Shoshoni / Åke Hultkrantz; title: The creation myths of the North American Indians / Anna Birgitta Rooth; title: The cultural-historical background of myths on the separation of sky and earth / K. Numazawa; title: The role of myth in life / Bronislaw Malinowski; title: The plasticity of myth : cases from Tikopia / Raymond Firth; title: The flexibility of myth / Th. P. Van Baaren; title: The mythic / Eric Dardel; title: The psychology of the child archetype / C.G. Jung.; title: Joseph Campbell's theory of myth / Robert A. Segal; title: Earth-diver : creation of the mythopoeic male / Alan Dundes; title: The story of Asdiwal / Claude Lévi-Strauss; title: The world conception of Lajos Ámi, storyteller / Sándor Erdész; title: The myth of Washington / Dorothea Wender.