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Authors: Jack Goody
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 2010-10-14 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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In Myth, Ritual and the Oral Jack Goody, one of the world's most distinguished anthropologists, returns to the related themes of myth, orality and literacy, sub
Myth
Language: en
Pages: 161
Authors: Robert Alan Segal
Categories: Religion
Type: BOOK - Published: 2015 - Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA

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This Very Short Introduction explores different approaches to myth from several disciplines, including science, religion, philosophy, literature, and psychology
Greek Mythology and Poetics
Language: en
Pages: 384
Authors: Gregory Nagy
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-09-05 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Gregory Nagy here provides a far-reaching assessment of the relationship between myth and ritual in ancient Greek society. Nagy illuminates in particular the fo
The Ritual Theory of Myth
Language: en
Pages: 92
Authors: Joseph Eddy Fontenrose
Categories: Social Science
Type: BOOK - Published: 1966 - Publisher: Univ of California Press

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Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition
Language: en
Pages: 370
Authors: Pierre Maranda
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 1971 - Publisher: Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press

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Thirteen anthropologists, including Claude Levi-Strauss, Dell Hymes, and Edmund R. Leach, examine myths, rituals, fold dramas, folk tales, riddles, and folk son