Jacobs, Melville; & Greenway, John ; editors: - The Anthropologist Looks at Myth

Austin [TX], University of Texas Press, [1966]. orig. cloth. 25x17cm, xiii,323,(2)pp, Series: Publications of the American Folklore Society. Bibliographical and special series, v. 17.. 2pp photoplates.. Rubbed. Stains to endpapers. Rubberstamp to top page-edge. Good. ¶ Foreword by Melville Jacobs. Contents: "Discoverer-of-the-Sun": Mythology as a Reflection of Culture; Guingamor and Guerrehés: Psychological Symbolism in a Medieval Romance; "Maka-andog": A Reconstructed Myth from Eastern Samar, Philippines; A Ponapean Oedipus Tale: Structural and Sociopsychological Analysis; The Aymara: History and Worldview; A Bulu Folktale: Content and Analysis; Numskull Clans and Tales: Their Structure and Function in Oceanic Asymmetrical Joking Relationships; The Wuradilagu Song Cycle of Northeastern Arnhem Land: Content and Style; The Ghost Husband: Society and the Individual in New Guinea Myth; Ethical Expression in a Burmese Jataka.

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