Interrelations of Myths and Motifs: A Socio-Cultural Viewpoint
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Myths and motifs constitute the expressive and symbolic representation of the culture of a society. They are frequent in creative productions and relate to religion, philosophy, and society’s environment and social forces. Though independent studies on motifs and myths exist, studies describing their interrelationship are hard to discover. Further, their trajectory and interrelations are hardly discussed in social sciences and even in Sociology. Taking this dearth of knowledge into account, the present article tries to elaborate on these two concepts, chalk out their interpretations by Sociologists, and establish their interrelations. The article is based on secondary literature established through the content analysis method. The result and discussion are organized into four parts i.e. conceptual elaborations of motifs and myths, the Sociological knowledge production on motifs and myths, the interrelationship between myths and motifs, and the concluding lines. The study ends with the concluding lines that myths and motifs are cultural and social resources whose study needs to be brought out into the ambit of social science discourses.
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Roopa Roshan Sahoo, & Navaneeta Rath. (2023). Interrelations of Myths and Motifs: A Socio-Cultural Viewpoint. Lakhomi Journal Scientific Journal of Culture, 3(4), 147-157. https://doi.org/10.33258/lakhomi.v3i4.838
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Mahanta, Mridusmita (2019) Myth as Discourse for the Construction of Communal Identity,https://www.researchgate.net/publication/336601812 Myth as Discourse_for_the_Construction_of_Communal_Identity
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MalinowskI, B. (1948) Magic, Science and Religion and other Essays. New York: Anchor Books.
Maranda, P. (1972) Mythology. London: Penguin.
Merton, R. K. (1949). Social Theory and Social Structure. The Free Press.
Milo R, Shen-Orr S, Itzkovitz S, et al. (2002)Network motifs: simple building blocks of complex networks[J]. Science, 2002, 298(5594): 824-827, HAL, https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03154425
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"Myth." In The Bedford Glossary of Critical and Literary Terms. 2nd ed. Ed. Ross Murfin and Supryia M. Ray. Boston: Bedford-St. Martin's, 2003.
Nakhasathien, K., Somtrakool, K., & Siltrakul, W. (2013). Brocades of the Southern cities: Development of woven fabric products in order to add value to community economy. Asian Social Science, 9(17), 128–134.
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Psathas, G., & Schutz’s, A. (2004). Influence on American sociologists and sociology. Human Studies, 27(1), 1-35.
Pleck, J. (1981) The Myth of Masculinity. MIT Press, Cambridge, MA
Purwar, Shristi (2021) Motifs: Language of Cultural Tradition, International Journal of Textile and Fashion Technology (IJTFT), Vol. 11, Issue 1, Feb , 13-22
Rey, A., ed. (2010) Dictionnaire historique de la langue française (Paris) (cross Reference Morgan,2015)
Sangama, E.M. and Rani, A. (2012) Development of designs for textile designing. Text. Trends, 54(3): 29-34.
Segal, AR.(2015) The modern study of myth and its relation to science. Zygon. 50(3): 757- 771.Wiley Online Library
Sharma, Ansul,et.al.(2016) Development of Motifs: Traditional to Contemporary for Saris, Research Journal of Recent Sciences,Vol. 5(7), 44-46
Smith, MC. (2002) Health, healing, and the myth of the hero journey. Adv Nurs Sci. 24(4): 1- 13
Thompson, Stith. 1946. The Folktale. New York: The Dryden Press.
Van Der Leeuw, G. (1977) The Phenomenology of Religion, Leiden: Brill.
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Vickery, J. (Ed.) (1966) Myth and Literature: Contemporary Theory and Practice. University of Nebraska Press, Lincoln
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Würzbach, N. (2005) ‘Motif’, in D. Herman et al., edd., Routledge Encyclopedia of Narrative Theory (London) 322–3.