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Myths, Legends, and Folktales--Past, Present, and Future

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The term for a story dealing with the remote past, often with the origin of a culture:
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The term for a story dealing with cultural heroes of the recent past:
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What is the term for a story reported to be told by a contemporary individual about events that occurred to him or her? Legend.
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The scholar who rejected both Freudian and evolutionary theories of myth and proposed looking at them as charters for contemporary social life is:
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Mundurucu sacred trumpet myths and Wogeo flute myths have the common theme of: male/female .
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Folktales that contain socializing narratives aimed particularly at children are:
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A universal legendary figure who dupes and is duped by those around him is: the
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The story of Paul Bunyan is an example of an American:
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The scholar who analyzed a large number of North and South American native myths for their structural components is: -
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The scholar associated with the now discredited theory of unilineal cultural evolution is: .