Subtitle:
The study of myths and rituals
Place of Publication:
Tuscaloosa, Alabama
Publisher:
University of Alabama Press
Copyright Date:
1986
Publication Date:
1994
ISBN / SBN / ISSN:
0817303987
Media Type:
Print (Non-Serial)
Media Sub-type:
Book
LoC Call Number:
BL 304 .D58 1986
Accession Number:
059651
Keyword Subject Headings:
Freud and mythology
Post-Freudian mythography
Jungian archetypes and amplifications
Psychosociology
Psychoanthropology
Psychological functions of myths and rituals
Post-Freudian mythography
Jungian archetypes and amplifications
Psychosociology
Psychoanthropology
Psychological functions of myths and rituals
User Notes:
Paperback, xix pp. including acknowledgements and preface , 326 pp. including notes, bibliography, index of names, and index
Contents:
The Many Dimensions of Myths and Ritual
The Functional Contexts and Truths of Myths and Rituals
Ritual: The Symbolic Intercom
The Cosmological Human Body: Biogenetic and Cultural Factors
The Psychological Approaches
Myth Criticism in Literary Analysis
Structuralism and Structural Patterns of Myths and Rituals
Mythic Dimensions of Our Decentered Cosmos
