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PublisherUniversity of Virginia Press

ISBN-100813916569

ISBN-139780813916569

eBay Product ID (ePID)432909

Product Key Features

Number of Pages448 Pages

Publication NameMyth and Method

LanguageEnglish

SubjectFolklore & Mythology, General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Philosophy

Publication Year1996

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaReligion, Social Science

AuthorWendy Doniger

SeriesStudies in Religion and Culture Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight11.7 Oz

Item Length9.3 in

Item Width6.3 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

LCCN96-014672

Dewey Edition20

Grade FromCollege Graduate Student

Dewey Decimal291.1/3/01

Table Of ContentPreface Introduction Part I / Bricolage in a New Key: Myth, Method, and Intellectual History Children Consumed and Child Cannibals: Robertson Smith's Attack on the Science of Mythology The Rise of Ritual and the Hegemony of Myth: Sylvain Lévi, the Durkheimians, and Max Müller Does Myth Have a Future? Part II // The Dilemma of the Two-Headed Scholar: Myth and Comparison Minimyths and Maximyths and Political Points of View Dumézil, the Indo-Europeans, and the Third Function Madness in Method, plus a Plea for Projective Inversion in Myth Part III / A History Without Structure and a Structure Without History: Myth and Cultural Traditions Mythic Narrative and Cultural Diversity in American Society Archetypes of Selves: A Study of the Chinese Mytho-Historical Consciousness Myth and Money: The Exchange of Words and Wealth in Vedic Commentary Part IV / Continuities and Interruptions: Myth, Art, and Literature Sancho Panza and Nemi's Priest: Reflections on the Relationship of Literature and Myth The Gilgamesh Epic: Myth and Meaning Picasso's Guernica as Mythic Iconoclasm: An Eliadean Interpretation of the Myth of Modern Art Harnessing the Dragon: A Mythos Transformed in Medieval Jewish Literature and Art Afterword Contributors Index

SynopsisAssessing the state of the study of myth, this text explores the possibilities for charting a methodological middle course that takes into account both the comparative and the contextual issues raised since 1985., 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., 'Myth and Method is a significant contribution to the study of religion, culture, method, and comparison, summarizing, with fairness, the crisis in the study of mythology that has developed in the last ten years. The volume strives for a balance between two centrifugal forces in academic discourse: the exclusive focus on method and an exclusive focus on area studies, addressing their strengths without aligning itself to the provincialism of either.

LC Classification NumberBL304.M85 1996