Year: 1993
Type: article
Abstract: UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI'IIdeas and categories of center and periphery have been a subject of some debate in anthropology, history, the history of religion, urban geography and sociology.1 The intellectual stimulus underlying these debates can be traced to the seminal ideas of Mircea Eliade.In numerous publications he consistently argued that "primordial sacred history, brought together by the totality of significant myths, is fundamental because it explains, and by the same token justifies, the existence of the world, of man and of society.This is the reason that a mythology is considered at once a true 1 See for example Mary Douglas, Purity and Danger: An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo (New York: Praeger, 1966); Victor Turner, The Ritual
Author: Léonard Y. Andaya
Language: English
Subfield: Cultural Studies
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W805431989