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Title |
Title of document |
Müller’s Legacy, Broken: Malinowski and the Pragmatist Theory of Myths - How to Do Things with Myths |
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Creator |
Author's name, affiliation, country |
Ivan Strenski; University of California Riverside (retired); |
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Subject |
Discipline(s) |
Religious Studies; Ethnography; Anthropology; Cultural Studies |
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Subject |
Keyword(s) |
myth; Bronislaw Malinowski; concept-formation; New Guinea; empiricist approach; Darwin; Wilhelm Dilthey; Durkheim; J. G. Frazer; Freud; Ernst Mach; Nietzsche; Mauss; Radcliffe-Brown; Wilhelm Wundt |
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Subject |
Subject classification |
Myth |
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Description |
Abstract |
Based on intense fieldwork in New Guinea, Malinowski theorizes that myths ‘perform’ – they act as tools for sustaining the social order; they do not ‘explain’ anything. His resort to a subjective method of concept-formation breaks with heretofore prevailing passive empiricist approaches to ‘discovering’ the definition of myth. Attention is given to Malinowski’s major intellectual influences -- Darwin, Wilhelm Dilthey, Durkheim, J. G. Frazer, Freud, Ernst Mach, Nietzsche, Mauss, Radcliffe-Brown, Wilhelm Wundt. |
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Publisher |
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Equinox Publishing Ltd |
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Date |
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01-Jul-2024 |
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Peer-reviewed Article |
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Format |
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PDF |
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Identifier |
Uniform Resource Identifier |
https://journals.equinoxpub.com/index.php/books/article/view/44971 |
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Identifier |
Digital Object Identifier |
10.1558/equinox.44971 |
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Source |
Journal/conference title; vol., no. (year) |
Equinox eBooks Publishing; How to Do Things with Myths |
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Language |
English=en |
en |
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Rights |
Copyright and permissions |
Copyright 2014 Equinox Publishing Ltd |