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