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The Bungling Host - The Nature of Indigenous Oral Literature (Paperback)
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The Bungling Host - The Nature of Indigenous Oral Literature (Paperback)
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The Bungling Host motif appears in countless indigenous cultures in
North America and beyond. In this groundbreaking work Daniel
Clement 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, Clement considers
not only material culture but also social, economic, and cultural
life; Native knowledge of the environment; and the world of plants
and animals. Clement'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.
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