Malinowski and the Work of Myth |
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| Editor:
| Strenski, Ivan |
| Series title: | Mythos: the Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-691-60155-7 |
| Publication Date: | Sep 2014 |
| Publisher: | Princeton University Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | AUD $54.99 |
Book Description:
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Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences. And nowhere is this impact more evident or more persistent than on the study of myth, ritual, and religion. He articulated as never before or since a program of seeing myths as part of the functional, pragmatic, or performed
Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences. And nowhere is this impact more evident or more persistent than on the study of myth, ritual, and religion. He articulated as never before or since a program of seeing myths as part of the functional, pragmatic, or performed