New York Folklore Quarterly: Volume XXIX, No. 4

"The paradox that the Osiris myth attempts to solve is the contradiction between cognatic and affinal kinship relations. Every man ... is at some time a son, a father, or a brother (cognatic roles), as well as a husband and brother-in-law (affinal roles)...To emphasize the ties of blood means to de-emphasize the ties of marriage and vice versa. The paradox is unescapable since each individual has both cognatic and affinal ties, and the contradiction is also real and thus unresolvable. The myth overcomes this paradox though, according to Levi-Strauss’ thinking, by showing that cognatic and affinal relationships are self-conradictory in similar ways and thus they are identical — and if they are identical, they are not contradictory." (from "The Cognatic-Affinal Paradox in the Egyptian Myth of Osiris: A Critical Application of the Structural Method" by William Tulio Divale)

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NEW YORK FOLKLORE QUARTERLY
Vol. XXIX, No. 4, December, 1973

CONTENTS

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Contributors		242
Unintentional Substitution in Folklore Transmission: A Devolutionary Instance	William M. Clements	242
The St. Lawrence River Skiff and the Folklore of Boats	Richard Lunt	254
The Trickster as Literary Hero: Cecil Brown’s The Life and Loves of Mr. Jiveass Nigger	William H. Wiggins, Jr.	269
The Cognatic-Affinal Paradox in the Egyptian Myth of Osiris: A Critical Application of the Structural Method	William Tulio Divale	287
Washington Irving and New England Witchlore	James W. Clark, Jr.	304
Index for Volume XXIX	Helen A. Fraser	314

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