VII. Cosmogonic Narrative as Sociocosmic Classification (Feb. 27)


Topics: The special importance of cosmogonic or creation narratives; their relationship to other cultural domains and contexts.

T Sahlins, Marshall
1985 Islands of History, chap. 3

T Reeve, Mary-Elizabeth
1988 Cauchu Uras: Lowland Quichua Histories of the Amazon Rubber Boom. Chap. 1 in Rethinking History and Myth.

T Roe, Peter G.
1988 The Josho Nahuanbo Are All Wet and Undercooked: Shipibo Views of the Whiteman and the Incas in Myth, Legend, and History. Chap. 4 in Rethinking History and Myth

Urton, Gary,
1990 The Mythic Dimensions of Inka History. Chap. 1of The History of a Myth: Pacariqtambo and the Origin of the Inkas. Austin: University of Texas Press.

McKinnon, Susan
1991 "The Differentiation of the World" (Chap. 3) and "The Recomposition of the World: Villages" (Chap. 4) in From a Shattered Sun: Hierarchy, Gender, and Alliance in the Tanimbar Islands. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press.

Recommended:

T Whitten, Norman E.
1988 Historical and Mythic Evocations of Chthonic Power in South America. In Rethinking History and Myth.