Choose one of the thinkers about myth (mythologists) in the Required Learning Materials and conduct some further research on them using resources in the UMGC library. Then, summarize two of their ideas which might help your classmates interpret and analyze myths and their relationships to nonmaterial culture (beliefs, values, norms, customs, traditions etc.). Avoid talking about the person’s biography. Focus on their ideas.
Some of the mythologists you could choose include: Giambattista Vico, Johann Gottfried von Herder, Jacob Grimm, James G. Frazer, Georges Dumézil, Sigmund Freud, Alan Dundes, Carl Gustav Jung, Lord Raglan, Joseph Campbell, Emile Durkheim, Bronislaw Malinowski, Claude Lévi Strauss, Vladimir Propp, Mircea Eliade, William Doty, and Wendy Doniger O’Flaher
