The Social Contract and Symbolic Structure in Three Vietnamese Tales of the "Last Born.".
In this study of how a last-born sibling in three Vietnamese folktales is cut of from a reasonable share of an inheritance after the death of the father, I argue that this tale type is structured to affirm the idea of a just social contract, and the motif of the last born tale type is affected by sh...
| Publicado en: | Asian Ethnology Vol. 69; no. 2; pp. 293 - 311 |
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Nanzan University
2010
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