ANTH 263: Myth and Legend
Fall 1998

Some points to direct you in studying for the final exam for the last section of the course (but remember the final will be cumulative):

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Brer Rabbit
oral tales as resistance
Ananse
Ashanti: political organization, kinship structure, key rituals and symbols, gods
anansesem
Victor Turner
liminality
hermeneutics
univocal mind
trickster (and resistance, in cultural context, representing duality, structural position vis-a-vis society)
Hate-to-be-contradicted
Nyame
Rise-up-and-make-love-to-Aso
ntoro
Asase Yaa
mythemes
Mary Douglas
structuralism (and history, science, linguistics, and mythology)
Lévi-Strauss (and Jakobson and Saussure)
raw:cooked::naked:clothed::nature:culture
"The macaws and their nest"
"The origin of fire"
Mythologiques series
harelips, twins and breech babies
‘primitive’ and ‘civilized’ minds
the culinary triangle
Kant
color classifications and structuralism
structure as a noun and as a verb