The hero legend in colonial Southeast Asia
Four legends that originated in the different religious and colonial contexts of the Tagalog and Makassar peoples are shown to conform to Edward Tylor’s classical “hero pattern.” Using structural anthropology and cognitive linguistics, this article argues that hero legends generated metaphors from c...
| Published in: | Philippine Studies: Historical and Ethnographic Viewpoints Vol. 61, no. 4 (Dec. 2013), 437-476 |
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| Language: | English |
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2013
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