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PAUL BUNYAN AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE TALL TALE
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GIER, CHRISTOPHER T.
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Year and Degree
2005, MA, University of Cincinnati, Arts and Sciences : Anthropology.
Abstract
In Anthropology the tracking of cultural changes is paramount in understanding a culture’s present ideals and the past ideals from which they originate. In the case of many past cultures these changes are not recorded and may not be present in archaeological data, thus subtle but significant changes in the culture can go largely unnoticed. This thesis presents a way of determining cultural change through the changes in a culture’s folklore. Through analysis of the Paul Bunyan stories and the changes occurring to them over the course of 65 years, a depiction of cultural changes over this time can be produced, which prove to be fairly historically accurate. This theory could in turn be used to help determine previously unrecorded cultural change from societies where little cultural background has been recorded.
Committee
Martha Rees (Advisor)
Pages
47 p.
Subject Headings
Anthropology, Cultural
Keywords
Paul Bunyan
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Cultural Change
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Myth
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Folklore
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Folktale
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Tall Tale
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GIER, C. T. (2005).
PAUL BUNYAN AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE TALL TALE
[Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1132066290
APA Style (7th edition)
GIER, CHRISTOPHER.
PAUL BUNYAN AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE TALL TALE.
2005. University of Cincinnati, Master's thesis.
OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center
, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1132066290.
MLA Style (8th edition)
GIER, CHRISTOPHER. "PAUL BUNYAN AND THE EVOLUTION OF THE TALL TALE." Master's thesis, University of Cincinnati, 2005. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1132066290
Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)
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