Malinowski and the Work of Myth

Summary

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

Product details

• Authors: Ivan Strenski
• Assisted by: Ivan Strenski (Editor), Strenski Ivan (Editor)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 14.07.2014
• EAN: 9780691601557
• ISBN: 978-0-691-60155-7
• No. of pages: 216
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; Bollingen Series; Mythos: The Princeton/Bollingen Series in World Mythology
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); 20th Century, Anthropology, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General, c 1800 to c 1900, Folklore, myths & legends, Psychoanalytical theory (Freudian psychology)