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Malinowski and the Work of Myth
By (Author) Ivan Strenski
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
23rd September 2014
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
306
Paperback
216
Width 152mm, Height 229mm
28g
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