Frances Harwood
Biographic Data
| ID | 192226 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Frances Harwood |
| GIVEN NAMES | Frances |
| FAMILY NAME | Harwood |
| SIGNATURE | HARWOOD F |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 1 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 22 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 1 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Myth, Memory, and the Oral Tradition
In nonliterate societies, myths are often linked to specific geographical locations. Using Malinowski's Trobriand material and taking a lead from Cicero's De oratore, it is argued that spatial location functions (1) as a mnemonic device for the recall of a corpus of myth, (2) as a structural marker dividing a corpus into separate thinkable units, and (3) as a means of restricting social change at least temporarily to specific institutions. Malino…
Myth, Memory, and the Oral Tradition
In nonliterate societies, myths are often linked to specific geographical locations. Using Malinowski's Trobriand material and taking a lead from Cicero's De oratore, it is argued that spatial location functions (1) as a mnemonic device for the recall of a corpus of myth, (2) as a structural marker dividing a corpus into separate thinkable units, and (3) as a means of restricting social change at least temporarily to specific institutions. Malino…
Myth, Memory, and the Oral Tradition
In nonliterate societies, myths are often linked to specific geographical locations. Using Malinowski's Trobriand material and taking a lead from Cicero's De oratore, it is argued that spatial location functions (1) as a mnemonic device for the recall of a corpus of myth, (2) as a structural marker dividing a corpus into separate thinkable units, and (3) as a means of restricting social change at least temporarily to specific institutions. Malino…
Art (1 works) · Byzantine Studies and History (1 works) · Cicero (1 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (1 works) · Cognition (1 works) · History (1 works) · History (1 works) · Linguistics (1 works) · Linguistics and language evolution (1 works) · Literature (1 works)