Bungling Host: The Nature of Indigenous Oral Literature by Clement, Daniel

The Bungling Host: The Nature of Indigenous Oral Literature (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781496206053)

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Bungling Host: The Nature of Indigenous Oral Literature by Clement, Daniel

The Bungling Host: The Nature of Indigenous Oral Literature

$40.00
Bungling Host: The Nature of Indigenous Oral Literature by Clement, Daniel

The Bungling Host: The Nature of Indigenous Oral Literature

$40.00
Format: Paperback
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The Bungling Host motif appears in countless indigenous cultures in North America and beyond. In this groundbreaking work Daniel Cl駑ent has gathered nearly four hundred North American variants of the story to examine how myths acquire meaning for their indigenous users and explores how seemingly absurd narratives can prove to be a rich source of meaning when understood within the appropriate context. In analyzing the Bungling Host tales, Cl駑ent considers not only material culture but also social, economic, and cultural life; Native knowledge of the environment; and the world of plants and animals.

Cl駑ent's analysis uncovers four operational modes in myth construction and clarifies the relationship between mythology and science. Ultimately he demonstrates how science may have developed out of an operational mode that already existed in the mythological mind.


Author: Daniel Cl駑ent
ISBN-10: 1496206053
ISBN-13: 9781496206053
Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
Language: English
Published: 08/01/2018
Pages: 570
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.82lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 1.27d
By Daniel Cl駑ent
By Daniel Cl駑ent
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Daniel Cl駑ent is an anthropologist consultant. He is the author of several books published in France. Peter Frost has translated several books in anthropology and local history and is an author in his own right.

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