The classic work by Edward Burnett Tylor is

Culture , 2 vols, 1st edn. (London: Murray, 1871). Citations are from the reprint of the 5th (1913) edition (New York: Harper Torchbooks, 1958). The work by Stephen Jay Gould quoted is

Rocks of Ages (London: Vintage, 2002 [1999]). On possible ways of distinguishing myth from science, see my

Theorizing about Myth (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1999), pp. 7-9.

For a refreshingly sensible postmodern approach to myth, see Laurence Coupe,

Myth (London and New York: Routledge, 1997).

For a modern Tylorian perspective, see David Bidney,

Theoretical Anthropology , 2nd edn. (New York: Schocken, 1967 [1st edn. 1953]), chapter 10; 'Myth, Symbolism, and Truth’,

Journal of American Folklore , 68 (1955): 379-92.

On the term 'euhemerist’, see Joseph Fontenrose,

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