Mertcan Bulak: In his essay on "Structure and Form" (1958: Ch. 8), Levi-Strauss locates the principal difference between myths and folktales in the strength and quality of the oppositions they mediate. Myths serve a more central and serious cultural function, hence deal with more important cultural anxieties and are subject to stricter demands for logical coherence, to concerns about religious orthodoxy, and to pressure to support cultural values and institutions. Folktales develop in a popular milieu which often sets itself in opposition to the cultural establishment, so that myth and folktale may stand in ideological opposition to one another. But folktale is subject to fewer cultural pressures, since it is, by definition, less important.

In his essay on "Structure and Form" (1958: Ch. 8), Levi-Strauss locates the principal difference between myths and folktales in the strength and quality of the oppositions they mediate. Myths serve a more central and serious cultural function, hence deal with more important cultural anxieties and are subject to stricter demands for logical coherence, to concerns about religious orthodoxy, and to pressure to support cultural values and institutions. Folktales develop in a popular milieu which often sets itself in opposition to the cultural establishment, so that myth and folktale may stand in ideological opposition to one another. But folktale is subject to fewer cultural pressures, since it is, by definition, less important.

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Theories of Mythology Eric Csapo

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