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Book Essays in Folklore  Anthropology and Religion

Download or read book Essays in Folklore Anthropology and Religion written by Ernest Jones and published by . This book was released on 1951 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Myth

Download or read book The Bloomsbury Reader in the Study of Myth written by Jonathan Miles-Watson and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2019-08-22 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is myth? Why do myths exist? What do myths do? Where are myths going? This reader is organized into 4 parts which explore these questions. Drawing on over 10 years of experience teaching myth in religious studies and anthropology departments in the UK, USA and Continental Europe the editors have brought together key works in the theory of myth. Key features include: - a general introduction to the reader that outlines a comparative and interpretative framework - an introduction contextualizing each part and sub-section - an introduction to each reading by the editors - a companion website that provides discussion questions and further reading suggestions, including primary sources. From functionalism to feminism, nationalism to globalization, and psychoanalysis to spatial analysis, this reader covers the classic and contemporary theories and approaches needed to understand what myth is, why myths exist, what they do, and what the future holds for them.

Book Analytic Essays in Folklore

Download or read book Analytic Essays in Folklore written by Alan Dundes and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Analytic Essays in Folklore".

Book New Directions in Psychological Anthropology

Download or read book New Directions in Psychological Anthropology written by Theodore Schwartz and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The field of psychological anthropology has changed a great deal since the 1940s and 1950s, when it was often known as 'Culture and Personality Studies'. Rooted in psychoanalytic psychology, its early practitioners sought to extend that psychology through the study of cross-cultural variation in personality and child-rearing practices. Psychological anthropology has since developed in a number of new directions. Tensions between individual experience and collective meanings remain as central to the field as they were fifty years ago, but, alongside fresh versions of the psychoanalytic approach, other approaches to the study of cognition, emotion, the body, and the very nature of subjectivity have been introduced. And in the place of an earlier tendency to treat a 'culture' as an undifferentiated whole, psychological anthropology now recognizes the complex internal structure of cultures. The contributors to this state-of-the-art collection are all leading figures in contemporary psychological anthropology, and they write abour recent developments in the field. Sections of the book discuss cognition, developmental psychology, biology, psychiatry, and psychoanalysis, areas that have always been integral to psychological anthropology but which are now being transformed by new perspectives on the body, meaning, agency and communicative practice.

Book Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth

Download or read book Psychoanalytic Approaches to Myth written by Daniel Merkur and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2005-07-05 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys the history of psychoanalytic treatments of myths variously as symptoms of psychopathology, as cultural defense mechanisms, and as metaphoric expressions of ideas that may include therapeutic insights.

Book Cinderella  a Casebook

Download or read book Cinderella a Casebook written by Alan Dundes and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1988 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covering a period of more than one hundred years of work by renowned folklorists, these enlightening essays explore the timeless tale of Cinderella. In addition to the most famous versions of the story (Basile's Pentamerone, Perrault's Cendrillon, and the Grimm's Aschenputtel), this casebook includes articles on other versions of the tale from Russian, English, Chinese, Greek and French folklore. The volume concludes with several interpretive essays, including a psychoanalytic view from Dundes and a critique of the popularization of Cinderella in America. "Folklorists, scholars of children's literature, and feminists should appreciate particularly the wide scope of this collection . . . now in paperback with an updated Bibliographical Addendum. . . . Most helpful are the two-page introductions to each variant and to each essay which include a brief overview of the historical times as well as suggested additional sources for more discussion."-Danny Rochman, Folklore Forum "A milestone, a near complete source of primary and secondary materials. . . . The selected analytical writing include definitive classic and new discoveries, covering the whole range of methodological modes and theoretical perspectives from early forms and typology to myth-ritual, social-historical, anthropological, and psychoanalytical readings. The annotated bibliography is most helpful, illuminating, and comprehensive, encompassing publications in other Western languages and works by Asianists."-Chieko Mulhern, Asian Folklore Studies "One can imagine several dimensions on which psychoanalysts might find such a collection interesting: as examples of applied psychoanalysis, in relation to philosophical and cultural examination of imaginative material, in relation to child development, and in the correlations between folktales of a particular culture and individual histories."-Kerry Kelly Novick, Psychoanalytic Quarterly

Book Folklore  Selected Essays

Download or read book Folklore Selected Essays written by Richard Mercer Dorson and published by . This book was released on 1972 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Psychoanalytic Study of Society  V  13

Download or read book The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V 13 written by L. Bryce Boyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-01-04 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Volume 13 includes chapters on the contributions of Weston LaBarre (B. Kilbourne); Geza Roheim's theory of myth (S. Morales); the origins of Christianity (W. Meissner); myths in Inuit religion (D. Merkur); the psychology of a Sherpa shaman (R. Paul); the psychoanalytic study of urban legends (M. Carroll); and the dogma of technology (H. Stein & R. Hill).

Book Folklore  the Pulse of the People

Download or read book Folklore the Pulse of the People written by Mazharul Islam and published by Concept Publishing Company. This book was released on 1985 with total page 452 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Interpreting Folklore

Download or read book Interpreting Folklore written by Alan Dundes and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1980-08-22 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: " . . . Dundes has produced a work which will be useful to both students and teachers who wish to broaden their understanding of modern folklore." —Center for Southern Folklore Magazine "It is impossible ever to remain unimpressed with [Dundes'] excursuses, however much one may be in disagreement (or not) with his conclusions." —Forum for Modern Language Studies Often controversial, Alan Dundes's scholarship is always provocative, perceptive, and intelligent. His concern here is to assess the material folklorists have so painstakingly amassed and classified, to interpret folklore, and to use folklore to increase our understanding of human nature and culture.

Book Since Lacan

    Book Details:
  • Author : Linda Clifton
  • Publisher : Routledge
  • Release : 2018-03-29
  • ISBN : 0429905025
  • Pages : 288 pages

Download or read book Since Lacan written by Linda Clifton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-03-29 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume comprises of papers by analysts and members of the Freudian School of Melbourne. It addresses the question what difference Lacan's teaching has made in the field of psychoanalysis. The paper demonstrates the possibility of moving from the origin to originality in an antipodean place.

Book The Psychoanalytic Study of Society  V  19

Download or read book The Psychoanalytic Study of Society V 19 written by L. Bryce Boyer and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-05-13 with total page 387 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Critical appreciations of George A. De Vos, a pioneer in the cross-cultural application of projective techniques (M. Suarez-Orozco, P. Lerner), and De Vos's own reminiscences, are followed by contributions true to the spirit of De Vos's methodology. They include a demonstration of the usefulness of projective tests in the psychodiagnostic evaluation of schizophrenia (J. Stone, P. Wilson & B. Boyer); an examination of the role of historical events in the development of Chinese and Japanese personality characteristics (J. Connor); a review of the impact of Freudian and Jungian thought in India (S. Kakar); and a study of loss and grief in a community of the North American Great Plains (H. Stein).

Book Parsing through Customs

Download or read book Parsing through Customs written by Alan Dundes and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 2003-03-28 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In these stimulating essays, Alan Dundes presents a history of psychoanalytic studies of folklore while also showing how folklore methodology can be used to clarify and validate psychoanalytic theory. Dundes’ work is unique in its symbolic analysis of the ordinary imagination. His data are children’s games, folktales, everyday speech, cultural metaphors for power and prestige, and rituals associated with childbirth.

Book The Psychoanalysis of Race

Download or read book The Psychoanalysis of Race written by Christopher Lane and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 1998 with total page 464 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Are divisive political forces the source of the historical persistence of racism and its alarming recurrence in contemporary society? Or are there also subtler, more intractable reasons for racism's irrational power and historical persistence? This collection of essays takes the study of racism into a radically new direction--that of unconscious fantasies and identities--offering perspectives from a variety of leading figures in many fields.

Book The Evil Eye

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Dundes
  • Publisher : Univ of Wisconsin Press
  • Release : 1992
  • ISBN : 9780299133344
  • Pages : 334 pages

Download or read book The Evil Eye written by Alan Dundes and published by Univ of Wisconsin Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The evil eye--the power to inflict illness, damage to property, or even death simply by gazing at or praising someone--is among the most pervasive and powerful folk beliefs in the Indo-European and Semitic world. It is also one of the oldest, judging from its appearance in the Bible and in Sumerian texts five thousand years old. Remnants of the superstition persist today when we drink toasts, tip waiters, and bless sneezers. To avert the evil eye, Muslim women wear veils, baseball players avoid mentioning a no-hitter in progress, and traditional Jews say their business or health is "not bad" (rather than "good"). Though by no means universal, the evil eye continues to be a major factor in the behavior of millions of people living in the Mediterranean and Arab countries, as well as among immigrants to the Americas. This widespread superstition has attracted the attention of many scholars, and the twenty-one essays gathered in this book represent research from diverse perspectives: anthropology, classics, folklore studies, ophthalmology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, sociology, and religious studies. Some essays are fascinating reports of beliefs about the evil eye, from India and Iran to Scotland and Slovak-American communities; others analyze the origin, function, and cultural significance of this folk belief from ancient times to the present day. Editor Alan Dundes concludes the volume by proffering a comprehensive theoretical explanation of the evil eye. Anyone who has ever knocked on wood to ward off misfortune will enjoy this generous sampling of evil eye scholarship, and may never see the world through the same eyes again.

Book The Savior God

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  • Author : Samuel Brandon (sac.)
  • Publisher : Manchester University Press
  • Release : 1963
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 274 pages

Download or read book The Savior God written by Samuel Brandon (sac.) and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: