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The Deduction of the Crane

© 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

© 2016 University of Pennsylvania Press, 3905 Spruce Street Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-4112

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Introduction IX
  4. I. MYTH
  5. The Deduction of the Crane 3
  6. Kimil: A Category of Andamanese Thought 22
  7. The "Wife" Who "Goes Out" Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook Myth 49
  8. The Interpretation of Myth: Theory and Practice 81
  9. II. RITUAL
  10. The Syntax of Symbolism in an Ndembu Ritual 125
  11. III. FOLK DRAMA
  12. Class, Clown, and Cosmology in Javanese Drama; An Analysis of Symbolic and Social Action 139
  13. IV. FOLK TALE
  14. The Making and Breaking of Friendship as a Structural Frame in African Folk Tales 171
  15. V. RIDDLE
  16. The Logic of Riddles 189
  17. VI. FOLK SONG
  18. Folk Song Texts as Culture Indicators 235
  19. VII. MYTH AND CULTURE CONTACT
  20. Myth and Anti-myth among the Timbira 271
  21. An Experiment: Suggestions and Queries from the Desk, with a Reply from the Ethnographer 292
Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition
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https://doi.org/10.9783/9781512804393-002

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter I
  2. Contents V
  3. Introduction IX
  4. I. MYTH
  5. The Deduction of the Crane 3
  6. Kimil: A Category of Andamanese Thought 22
  7. The "Wife" Who "Goes Out" Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook Myth 49
  8. The Interpretation of Myth: Theory and Practice 81
  9. II. RITUAL
  10. The Syntax of Symbolism in an Ndembu Ritual 125
  11. III. FOLK DRAMA
  12. Class, Clown, and Cosmology in Javanese Drama; An Analysis of Symbolic and Social Action 139
  13. IV. FOLK TALE
  14. The Making and Breaking of Friendship as a Structural Frame in African Folk Tales 171
  15. V. RIDDLE
  16. The Logic of Riddles 189
  17. VI. FOLK SONG
  18. Folk Song Texts as Culture Indicators 235
  19. VII. MYTH AND CULTURE CONTACT
  20. Myth and Anti-myth among the Timbira 271
  21. An Experiment: Suggestions and Queries from the Desk, with a Reply from the Ethnographer 292
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