 Melanesians agree, however, with this opinion? Certainly not. They do not want to "explain," to make "intelligible" anything which happens in their myths - above all not an abstract idea. Of that there can be found to my knowledge no instance either in...  Myth and the Limits of Reason - Page 118by Phillip Stambovsky - 1996 - 133 pagesLimited preview - About this book
 | Bronislaw Malinowski - 1926 - 104 pages
...there can be found to my knowledge no instance either in Melanesia or in any other savage community. The few abstract ideas which the natives possess carry...make the abstract idea sufficiently 'intelligible'. Nor would a Trobriander or any other native agree with the view that "Creation, Death, distinctions... | |
 | Alan Dundes - 1984 - 372 pages
...there can be found to my knowledge no instance either in Melanesia or in any other savage community. The few abstract ideas which the natives possess carry...make the abstract idea sufficiently "intelligible." Nor would a Trobriander or any other native agree with the view that "Creation, Death, distinctions... | |
 | Bronislaw Malinowski - 2001 - 226 pages
...there can be found to my knowledge no instance either in Melanesia or in any other savage community. The few abstract ideas which the natives possess carry their concrete commentary in the very word which 1 Quoted ; from Notes and Queries on Anthropology, pp. 210 and 211. expresses them. When being is described... | |
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