Structural Analysis of Oral Tradition / / Elii Köngäs Maranda, Pierre Maranda.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Penn eBook Package Archive 1898-1999 (pre Pub)
• HerausgeberIn: Maranda, Elii Köngäs,; Maranda, Pierre,
• Place / Publishing House: Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2016]; ©1971
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: Reprint 2016
• Language: English
• Series: Folklore and Folklife
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (326 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; Introduction --; The Deduction of the Crane --; Kimil: A Category of Andamanese Thought --; The "Wife" Who "Goes Out" Like a Man: Reinterpretation of a Clackamas Chinook Myth --; The Interpretation of Myth: Theory and Practice --; The Syntax of Symbolism in an Ndembu Ritual --; Class, Clown, and Cosmology in Javanese Drama; An Analysis of Symbolic and Social Action --; The Making and Breaking of Friendship as a Structural Frame in African Folk Tales --; The Logic of Riddles --; Folk Song Texts as Culture Indicators --; Myth and Anti-myth among the Timbira --; An Experiment: Suggestions and Queries from the Desk, with a Reply from the Ethnographer
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781512804393; 9783110442526
• DOI: 10.9783/9781512804393
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Elii Köngäs Maranda, Pierre Maranda.

Thirteen anthropologists, including Claude Levi-Strauss, Dell Hymes, and Edmund R. Leach, examine myths, rituals, fold dramas, folk tales, riddles, and folk songs, all in the context of the cultures in which they occur.