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Primitive Worlds
This book offers something that such technical reports seldom include: informal but authoritative accounts of how one goes about trying to understand a primitive society; that people say about their own customs; the welcome they offer - pr the obstacles they set up; what it's loke, in short, to live under social contitions so different from ours that the experience reminds the anthropologist if living in another era. rnThis book gives impressive instances of the importance of myth in the lives of nonliterate peoples. We may think that science has replaced myth in our lives, but the work of contemporary scholars makes us wonder if er are as myth- free as we suppose.
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