| Myth and Method Contributor(s): Patton, Laurie L. (Editor), Doniger, Wendy (Editor) |
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ISBN: 0813916577 ISBN-13: 9780813916576 Publisher: University of Virginia Press OUR PRICE: $38.12 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: December 1996 Annotation: 'Myth and Method is a significant contribution to the study of religion, culture, method, and comparison, summarizing, with fairness, the crisis in the study of mythology that has developed in the last ten years. The volume strives for a balance between two centrifugal forces in academic discourse: the exclusive focus on method and an exclusive focus on area studies, addressing their strengths without aligning itself to the provincialism of either. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Folklore & Mythology |
| Dewey: 291.130 |
| LCCN: 96-14672 |
| Series: Studies in Religion and Culture |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 6" W x 8.9" (1.45 lbs) 416 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In the wake of the elegant master theories of Joseph Campbell, Mircea Eliade, Georges Dumezil, and Claude Levi-Strauss, how are mythology and the comparative study of religion to be understood? In Myth and Method, a leading team of scholars assesses the current state of the study of myth and explores the possibilities for charting a methodological middle course between the comparative and the contextual issues raised in the last ten years. In confronting these tension, they provide an outline of the most troubling questions in the field and offer a variety of responses to them. |