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Lethal Speech: Daribi Myth As Symbolic Obviation (symbol, Myth, And Ritual Series) by Roy Wagner is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is Lethal Speech: Daribi Myth As Symbolic Obviation (symbol, Myth, And Ritual Series) about?
In this account of the narrative traditions of the Daribi people of Chimbu Province in Papua, the author presents and interprets an impressive body of myths and moral tales. He draws on his knowledge of the language, social organization, religion, and folklore of the Daribi people to analyze the texts in search of a formal, underlying pattern. Emerging from his treatment is a general theory of myth based on what he calls symbolic obviation — a dialectical process by which symbols beget other symbols and myths other myths, sequentially, with the begetters dislocated at each stage.
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- Author
- Roy Wagner
- Publisher
- Cornell University Press; Cornell Univ Pr
- Published
- 1978
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780801411939
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Sociology, History, Anthropology
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