Bronislaw Malinowski (1884-1942) was a wide-ranging thinker
whose ideas affected almost every branch of the social sciences.
And nowhere is this impact more evident or more persistent than on
the study of myth, ritual, and religion. He articulated as never
before or since a program of seeing myths as part of the
functional, pragmatic, or performed dimension of culture--that is,
as part of activities that did certain tasks for particular human
communities. Spanning his entire career, this anthology brings
together for the first time the important texts from his work on
myth. Ivan Strenski's introduction places Malinowski in his
intellectual world and traces his evolving conception of mythology.
As Strenski points out, Malinowski was a pioneer in applying the
lessons of psychoanalysis to the study of culture, while at the
same time he attempted to correct the generalizations of
psychoanalysis with the cross-cultural researches of ethnology.
With his growing interest in psychoanalysis came a conviction that
myths performed essential cultural tasks in "chartering" all sort
of human institutions and practices. Originally published in
1992.
The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand
technology to again make available previously out-of-print books
from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press.
These paperback editions preserve the original texts of these
important books while presenting them in durable paperback
editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly
increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the
thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since
its founding in 1905.
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