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Bahr, Ehrhard

doi:10.1007/978-3-476-03656-8_163

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“…For example, the ancient Greeks did believe their mythology, but eventually they stopped. The texts of the three tribes I compared (Bahr 1998) are almost mythologies in that sense. Many people do not believe them or do not know whether they believe them, and yet these people feel that someone out in some remote place still does.…”

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Bad News: The Predicament of Native American Mythology

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2001

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This article holds that native American communities generally did not produce and maintain stories of white and Indian relations, in other words, the sort of stories that loom large in the writings of ethnohistorians. What the communities traditionally produced instead were myths and mythologies about an ancient Edenic time before normal human procreation and marriage. The article also holds that the main influence on the content of mythologies was neighboring mythologies, such that each people's telling of ancientness was a parody, but a compassionate one, of its neighbors' tellings. The commitments to parody and to Edenic content hamper these mythologies in today's cultural world. The tellings were wonderful, but now they are past.

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Bad News: The Predicament of Native American Mythology

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