Myth and method /

Myth and method /

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Bibliographic Details
Imprint:	Charlottesville, Va. : University Press of Virginia, 1996.
Description:	416 p.
Language:	English
Series:	Studies in religion and culture Studies in religion and culture (Charlottesville, Va.)
Subject:	Myth -- Study and teaching -- Methodology. Mythology -- Study and teaching -- Methodology. Myth -- Study and teaching -- Methodology. Mythology -- Study and teaching -- Methodology.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/2553193

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Varying Form of Title:	Myth & method
Other authors / contributors:	Patton, Laurie L., 1961- Doniger, Wendy.
ISBN:	0813916569 (cloth : alk. paper) 0813916577 (paper : alk. paper))
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Summary:	In the wake of the elegant master theories of Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Georges Dumezil, and Claude Levi-Strauss, how are mythology and the comparative study of religion to be understood? In Myth and Method, a leading team of scholars assesses the current state of the study of myth and explores the possibilities for charting a methodological middle course between the comparative and the contextual issues raised in the last ten years. In confronting these tension, they provide an outline of the most troubling questions in the field and offer a variety of responses to them.
Physical Description:	416 p.
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	0813916569 0813916577