Myth and cosmos : readings in mythology and symbolism
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Myth and cosmos : readings in mythology and symbolism
(Texas Press sourcebooks in anthropology, 5)
University of Texas Press, c1967
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Reprint of the ed. published for the American Museum of Natural History by the Natural History Press, Garden City, N.Y., issued in series: American sourcebooks in anthropology
Bibliography: p. [349]-356
Includes index
Contents of Works
- Genesis as myth / Edmund R. Leach
- Four Winnebago myths : a structural sketch / Claude Lévi-Strauss
- Social implications of some Tangu myths / Kenelm O. L. Burridge
- Some social aspects of Lugbara myth / John Middleton
- Descent and symbolic filiation / Sally Falk Moore
- Magical hair / Edmund R. Leach
- The Nuer concept of spirit in its relation to the social order / E.E. Evans-Pritchard
- A problem of Nuer religious thought / E.E. Evans-Pritchard
- Nyakyusa ritual and symbolism / Monica Wilson
- Symbolic values and the integration of society among the mapuche of Chile / Louis C. Faron
- Morality and the concept of the person among the Gahuku-Gama / K.E. Read
- Animals in Lele religious thought / Mary Douglas
- Themes in the symbolism of Ndembu hunting ritual / Victor W. Turner
- Blood, thunder, and mockery of animals / Rodney Needham
- Hyena and rabbit / Thomas O. Beidelman
- The anthropology of time-reckoning / David F. Pocock
- Concepts of time among the Tiv of Nigeria / Paul Bohannan
- The Temne House / James Littlejohn