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.

Table of Contents:

1. Preface
2. Introduction
3. Part I / Bricolage in a New Key
4. Children Consumed and Child Cannibals
5. The Rise of Ritual and the Hegemony of Myth
6. Does Myth Have a Future?
7. Part II // The Dilemma of the Two-Headed Scholar
8. Minimyths and Maximyths and Political Points of View
9. Dumézil, the Indo-Europeans, and the Third Function
10. Madness in Method, plus a Plea for Projective Inversion in Myth
11. Part III / A History Without Structure and a Structure Without History
12. Mythic Narrative and Cultural Diversity in American Society
13. Archetypes of Selves
14. Myth and Money
15. Part IV / Continuities and Interruptions
16. Sancho Panza and Nemi's Priest
17. The Gilgamesh Epic
18. Picasso's Guernica as Mythic Iconoclasm
19. Harnessing the Dragon
20. Afterword
21. Contributors
22. Index