Author:
Buonanno, Michael, 1954- author.
ImprintJefferson, North Carolina : McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers, [2019]
Descriptionv, 317 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Note:Introduction: A story is medicine -- Origins: the dance and the dream -- The physical environment and ecological metaphors -- The social environment and sociological metaphors -- Religion as indigenous philosophy -- Anthropomorphic metaphors and identification -- Ritual enactment and affiliation -- Mythic rhetoric: allegories, ancestors and apocalypses -- Identity: myth, memory and affirmation -- Conclusion: The legimitacy of myth.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-306) and index.
Note:"Mythology is the basis of society's religion, and religion is an essential key to identity. Mythology creates and sanctions meaning through the elaboration of identity in cultural metaphors that are at once ecological, sociological and ideological. This study examines mythology from a global perspective, citing case studies in cultural traditions from Africa, Europe, Oceania, Native America and elsewhere"-- Provided by publisher.
