http://bactra.org/notebooks Cosma's Notebooks en http://bactra.org/notebooks/2007/09/26#myths As <a href="stories.html">stories</a>. Empirical evidence for archetypes (apparently all negative; see Kirk's <cite>Myth</cite>); for other "deep" meanings and interpretations. Cross-cultural patterns. Historical patterns. <P><em>See also</em> <a href="joseph-campbell.html">Joseph Campbell</a>; <a href="cassirer.html">Ernst Cassirer</a>; <a href="conspiracy-theories.html">Conspiracy Theories</a>; <a href="eliade.html">Mircea Eliade</a>; <a href="freud.html">Sigmund Freud</a>; <a href="jung.html">Carl Jung</a>; <a href="millenarian.html">Millenarianism</a>; <a href="narrative-communities.html">Narrative Communities</a>; <a href="religion.html">Religion</a>; <a href="structuralism.html">Structuralism</a>; <a href="superstition.html">Superstition</a>; <a href="universal-images.html">Universal Signs, Images and Symbols</a> <ul>Recommended: <li>Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Paul T. Barber, <cite>When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth</cite> [<a href="http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/7805.html">Blurb</a>, <a href="http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/chapters/s7805.html">first chapter</a>; <a href="http://www.americanscientist.org/template/BookReviewTypeDetail/assetid/42360">review</a> by Michael Shermer] <li>Carlo Ginzburg, <cite>Clues, Myths and the Historical Method</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/books/titles/s92/s92gicl.htm">Blurb</a>. Some critical remarks under <a href="history.html">Historiography</a>.] <li>G. Kirk, <cite>Myth: Its Meaning and Function in Ancient and Other Cultures</cite> <li>Bronislaw Malinowski, <cite>Magic, Science and Religion</cite> <li><a href="http://dan.sperber.com/">Dan Sperber</a> <ul> <li><cite>Rethinking Symbolism</cite> <li><cite>On Anthropological Knowledge</cite> </ul> <li>Ian Strenski, <cite>Four Theories of Myth in Twentieth-Century History: Cassirer, Eliade, Levi-Strauss and Malinowski</cite> </ul> <ul>To read: <li>Stefan Arvidsson, <cite>Aryan Idols: Indo-European Mythology as Ideology and Science</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/185832.ctl">Blurb</a>] <li>Hans Blumenberg, <cite>Work on Myth</citE> [<a href="http://mitpress.mit.edu/9780262521338">Blurb</a>] <li>Chiara Bottici, <cite>A Philosophy of Political Myth</cite> [<a href="http://cambridge.org/0521876559">Blurb</a>] <li>Luc Brisson, <cite>How Philosophers Saved Myths: Allegorical Interpretation and Classical Mythology</cite> <li>Malcolm Bull, <cite>The Mirror of the Gods: How Renaissance Artists Rediscovered the Pagan Gods</cite> <li>Claude Calame, <cite>Myth and History in Ancient Greece: The Symbolic Creation of a Colony</cite> [<a href="http://www.pupress.princeton.edu/titles/7680.html">Blurb</a>] <li>Robert Ellwood, <cite>The Politics of Myth: A Study of C. G. Jung, Mircea Eliade, and Joseph Campbell</cite> <li>Dean A. Miller, <cite>The Epic Hero</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.jhu.edu/press/books/titles/f02/f02miep.htm">Blurb</a>] <li>Jaan Puhvel, <cite>Comparative Mythology</cite> <li>Timothy Taylor, <cite>The Buried Soul: How Humans Invented Death</cite> <li>Stith Thompson <ul> <li><cite>The Folktale</cite> <li><cite>Motif-Index of Folk-Literature: A Classification of Narrative Elements in Folktales, Ballads, Myths, Fables, Mediaeval Romances, Exempla, Fabliaux</cite> </ul> <li>P. Vidal-Naquet <li>Calvert Watkins, <cite>How to Kill a Dragon: Aspects of Indo-European Poetics</cite> <li>George S. Williamson, <cite>The Longing for Myth in Germany: Culture, Religion, and Politics from Romanticism to Nietzsche</cite> [<a href="http://www.press.uchicago.edu/cgi-bin/hfs.cgi/00/16226.ctl">Blurb</a>] </ul>