Reading Max Müller in the Antipodes: Comparative Mythology as "Traveling Theory" in Late Nineteenth-Century New Zealand/Aotearoa.
In late nineteenth-century Britain, Friedrich Max Müller's (1823–1900) views on primeval Indo-European religious thought were clearly outmoded and long surpassed by the then fashionable—but perceived to be highly problematic in a later period (and today)—focus of evolutionary anthropologists on so-c...
| Publicado en: | Journal of Folklore Research Vol. 62; no. 1/2; pp. 85 - 113 |
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Jan-Aug2025
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