Historical Roots of the Wondertale, livre ebook

Indiana University Press is pleased to make this book freely available as an Open Access monograph. In Historical Roots of the Wondertale, he broadens and deepens his analysis, comparing folktale structures and content to rituals and customs of aboriginal societies from around the world and with people who were the first to envision religion and myth. Relying on both structural and historical-comparative methods, Propp sees the roots of the wondertale in rituals from earlier stages of human development, whose narratives were repurposed as their tellers settled into agricultural societies and ancient rituals were no longer practiced.

With a new introduction, conclusion, translators' notes, and a full bibliography, Historical Roots of the Wondertale complements and expands upon the Morphology, completing Propp's search for the origins of wondertales, myths, and religious practices.

Acknowledgments
Translators' Introduction
Author's Preface
1. Premises
2. Beginnings
3. The Mysterious Forest
4. The Big House
5. Magic Gifts
6. Crossing Over
7. At the River of Fire
8. Beyond the Thrice-Nine Lands
9. The Bride
10. The Wondertale as a Whole
Afterword: Vladimir Propp and His Historical Roots of the Wondertale, by Sergei Nekliudov
Notes
Bibliography
Index