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Indiana University Press, Bloomington, IN
Meanings and boundaries: reflections on Thompson's "Myth and folktales" / William Hansen -- From expressive language to mythemes: meaning in mythic narratives / John H. McDowell -- David Bidney and the people of truth / Gregory Schrempp -- Germans...
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Meanings and boundaries: reflections on Thompson's "Myth and folktales" / William Hansen -- From expressive language to mythemes: meaning in mythic narratives / John H. McDowell -- David Bidney and the people of truth / Gregory Schrempp -- Germans and Indians in South America: ethnography and the idea of text / Lúcia Sá -- "Made from bone": trickster myths, musicality, and social constructions of history in Venezuelan Amazon / Jonathan D. Hill -- Native American reassessment and reinterpretation of myths / Barre Toelken -- Myth read as history: Odin in Snorri Sturluson's Ynglinga saga / John Lindow -- Myth and legendum in medieval and modern Ireland / Joseph Falaky Nagy -- The west and the people with myth / Gordon Brotherston -- Myths of the rain forest/the rain forest as myth / Candace Slater -- Distempered demos: myth, metaphor, and U.S. political culture / Robert L. Ivie -- Imitation or reconstruction: how did Roman viewers experience mythological painting? / Eleanor W. Leach -- Mud and mythic vision: Hindu sculpture in modern Bangladesh / Henry Glassie -- Myth in historical perspective: the case of pagan deities in the Anglo-Saxon royal genealogies / R.D. Fulk -- Can myth be saved? / Gregory Nagy
