ANTH 263--Myth and Legend: The Anthropology of Oral Tradition
Fall 1998
Study Guide for Test 1
Saussure
metaphor
Whorf metonymy
cognitive models signifier
Jakobson signified
structuralism transposable models
interpretive anthropology trope
Geertz/Balinese Cockfight Stith Thompson
the Kalevala tale type
tale motif Märchen
myth legend
infield:outfield::_____:____ essentialism
Grimm Brothers Franz Boas
historical linguistics Suhirina
performance ritual & myth
resistance & myth/lore dreams & myths
jaguar (in Yanomamö and Makiritare) cannibalism
hekura shabono
Orinoco Soto
Metaphors We Live By Wanadi
Odosha Nuna
Yanomamö souls wabu fruit
twins Owsley
Yanomamö architecture and myth rites of passage/van Gennep
Roland Barthes first base/"first base"
What are the functions myths/folklore serve? think of specific examples for each function
What is the importance of variation in oral tradition? Where does it come from?
How have the tales and myths we have studied conceived of spatial relations?