ANTH 263--Myth and Legend: The Anthropology of Oral Tradition
Fall 1998

Study Guide for Test 1

 
Saussure                                              metaphor

Whorf                                                 metonymy

cognitive models                                  signifier

Jakobson                                             signified

structuralism                                         transposable models

interpretive anthropology                       trope

Geertz/Balinese Cockfight                      Stith Thompson

the Kalevala                                          tale type

tale motif                                              Märchen

myth                                                      legend

infield:outfield::_____:____                      essentialism

Grimm Brothers                                      Franz Boas

historical linguistics                                  Suhirina

performance                                             ritual & myth

resistance & myth/lore                                  dreams & myths

jaguar (in Yanomamö and Makiritare)          cannibalism

hekura                                                          shabono

Orinoco                                                         So’to

Metaphors We Live By                                  Wanadi

Odosha                                                           Nuna

Yanomamö souls                                             wabu fruit

twins                                                              Owsley

Yanomamö architecture and myth                      rites of passage/van Gennep

Roland Barthes                                                  first base/"first base"

What are the functions myths/folklore serve? think of specific examples for each function

What is the importance of variation in oral tradition? Where does it come from?

How have the tales and myths we have studied conceived of spatial relations?