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370 Pages·1964·12.43 MB·English
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/ LITERATURE AMONG THE PRIMITIVES Other book» by John Greenway THE INEVITABLE AMERICANS (1964) BIBLIOGRAPHY OF THE AUSTRALIAN ABORIGINES (1963) PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF THE PACIFIC (1963) PEOPLES AND CULTURES OF AUSTRALIA (1962) PRIMITIVE MUSIC (1962) PRINCIPLES OF ANTHROPOLOGY (1959) AMERICAN FOLKSONGS OF PROTEST (1953) John Greenway LITERATURE AMONG THE PRIMITIVES FOLKLORE ASSOCIATES HATBORO, PENNSYLVANIA 1964 Copyright © 1964 by Folklore Associates, Inc. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. First printing, March, /.%'.£ Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 64-13289 Manufactured in the United States of America To MacEdward Leach, dear friend and revered teacher, but for whose inspiration, advice, and encouragement, I would today be in a more profitable line of work.

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In this context, we are not to quarrel with the term "Literature". It simply means what would be written down, in the way of imaginative verbal constructions, if the primitive authors could write and if their audience were also readers. We are to distinguish "Primitive Literature" from folklore. Pri
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