Of gods and men
studies in Lithuanian mythology
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Author
Publication
1992 - Indiana University Press, Bloomington, Indiana
Language
English
Word Count
57,750 words, Guess
Page Count
231 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1565822M
- ISBN-100253326524
- OCLC Control Number25095315
- Library of Congress Control Number91048034
- LibraryThing655890
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- Goodreads1085166
Classifications
- DDC299/.192
- LCCBL945 .G7313 1992
Description
With this volume, Greimas gives voice to the cultural memory of his people. He is both storyteller and explicator, deciphering the symbolic world of Lithuanian mythology. This first English translation of Apie Dievus ir zmones is a brilliant convergence of Greimas's historical and folkloric studies. Greimas examines the origins of ancient deities; discusses the concepts of life and death, fate and fortune; looks at codes used by farmers to organize systems of mutual obligations and implicit contracts; examines pranks and games associated with agrarian seasonal changes; and discusses the semantic reconstruction of the names and functions of several deities. Emphasizing the historic dimension of myth analysis. Greimas assembles concepts and deities from scattered texts, integrating them into their Lithuanian cultural context. This study of mythology is his archaeology of culture.
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Series Statement
- Folklore studies in translation
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