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Genre/Form: | Fiction Criticism, interpretation, etc Folklore |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Allen W Johnson; Douglass Richard Price-Williams |
ISBN: | 0804725764 9780804725767 0804725772 9780804725774 |
OCLC Number: | 33132701 |
Description: | xv, 342 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
Contents: | pt. I. Analysis -- Ch. 1. Introduction -- Ch. 2. A Brief History of Research on Family-Complex Tales -- Ch. 3. The Evidence from World Folk Literature -- Ch. 4. The Theory of the Family Complex in Folk Literature -- Ch. 5. Conclusion -- pt. II. The Folktales -- Europe and Euro-America -- Middle East and Africa -- South and East Asia -- Oceania -- Native North America -- Native South America. |
Responsibility: | Allen Johnson and Douglass Price-Williams. |
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"This work is one of two books that won the 1997 Boyer Prize in psychoanalytic anthropology. The award is well deserved . . . this book makes major contributions to psychological and symbolic anthropology, folklore, evolutionary psychology, and psychonaysis."-Dan W. Forsyth, University of Southern Colorado Read more...
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