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Oedipus Ubiquitous: The Family Complex in World Folk Literature
Contributor(s): Johnson, Allen W. (Author), Price-Williams, Douglass (Author)
ISBN: 0804725772     ISBN-13: 9780804725774
Publisher: Stanford University Press
OUR PRICE:   $33.25  
Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats
Published: October 1996
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Annotation: " This work is one of two books that won the 1997 Boyer Prize in psychoanalytic anthropology. The award is well deserved . . . this book makes major contributions to psychological and symbolic anthropology, folklore, evolutionary psychology, and psychonaysis." -- Dan W. Forsyth, University of Southern Colorado
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BISAC Categories:
- Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Reading & Phonics
- Education | Teaching Methods & Materials - Social Science
- Education | Classroom Management
Dewey: 398.27
LCCN: 95041368
Physical Information: 0.8" H x 6.2" W x 9.29" (1.15 lbs) 360 pages
Themes:
- Topical - Family
 
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Publisher Description:
Is the "Oedipus complex" universal? This book examines the controversial question in light of its collection of 139 family complex folktales from every world cultural area and every level of social complexity, the largest such collection ever made.