Cultural Universals or Transmission? European Inter-Ethnic Reception of Folk Literature
Cultural Universals or Transmission? European Inter-Ethnic Reception of Folk Literature

Summary/Abstract: World-wide folkloristic and ethnological research points to existence of universal folk ideas which, in spite of their undergoing manifold modifications in concrete milieux and regional cultures, remain significant elements of European community, stable parametres of European mentality, different from Arabic, African, or Asian. Cultural differentiation of European sub-regions was caused mainly by various specific ways of structuring these ideas within a culture.

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