Structural analysis of oral tradition.
By: Edited by Pierre Maranda and Elli Köngäs Maranda.
Contributors: Maranda, Elli Köngäs, 1932- joint comp.
Series: University of Pennsylvania publications in folklore and folklife, no. 3
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 1971
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Tales -- Structural analysis; Folklore -- Structural analysis; Folk literature -- History and criticism; Oral tradition
Notes: Includes bibliographies.
Table of contents: title: The deduction of the crane, by C. Lévi-Strauss.; title: Kimil: a category of Andamanese thought, by E. R. Leach.; title: The wife who goes out like a man: reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook myth, by D. Hymes.; title: The interpretation of myth: theory and practice, by A. J. Groimas.; title: The syntax of symbolism in a Ndembu ritual, by V. Turner.; title: Class, clown, and cosmology in Javanese drama: an analysis of symbolic and social action, by J. L. Peacock.; title: The making and breaking of friendship as a structural frame in African folk tales, by A. Dundes.; title: The logic of riddles, by E. K. Maranda.; title: Folk song texts as culture indicators, by A. Lomax and J. Halifax.; title: Myth and anti-myth among the Timbira, by R. Da Matta.; title: An experiment: suggestions and queries from the desk, with a reply from the ethnographer, by A. Dundes [and others]