Publication Date

1-1-1953

Abstract

It has been well established that the cultural features of a society are reflected in its folk tales. Boas first presented his views on the cultural significance of folk tales in a series of papers on North American Indian mythology (Boas 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8), and he published detailed demonstrations of the possibility of reconstructing the culture of a tribe from its mythology, using Tsimshian (Boas 4) and Kwakiutl (Boas 7) material. His general conclusion is that... in the tales of a people those incidents of everyday life that are of importance to them will appear either incidentally or as the basis of a plot. Most of the references to the mode of life of a people will be an accurate reflection of their habits. (Boas 4 p. 393).

Keywords

Hopi, Folklore

Document Type

Thesis

Language

English

Degree Name

Anthropology

Level of Degree

Masters

Department Name

Anthropology

First Committee Member (Chair)

Stanley Stewart Newman

Second Committee Member

Willard Willams Hill

Third Committee Member

Ernest Warren Baughman

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