Metaphor and metonym as legend in experience : magic does make our world work

• Main Author: Elliott, Megan Rachael
• Other Authors: Rhum, Michael R., Department of Anthropology
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Northern Illinois University 1992
• Subjects: metaphor; metonym; magic; Levy; eskimo*; Inupiaq
• Online Access: http://commons.lib.niu.edu/handle/10843/16683

Includes bibliographical references. When Sir James Frazer unraveled the intricacies of magic in the early twentieth century/ he defined the sympathetic processes of contagion and homeopathy in magical acts. Almost contemporaneously, Lucien Levy-Bruhl analyzed native thinking in primitive cultures a...