Titolo: The Myth of Hero, morphology and semantic of heroic archetype
Autore: Bauzį Hugo Francisco
Anno: 2007
Pagine: 191
Editore: Fondo de Cultura Económica (Buenos Aires)
Prezzo: $ 34,00
ISBN: 9789505572458
One of more characteristic features of modernity seems to be the passion that citizens feel for their sports. Even though in different manners, many people are today prone to consider these types of games as a mean of social upward worldwide.
For part of the third world, families encourage their sons to play soccer or other discipline as a form of alleviating the poverty and improving material conditions wherein they live; in a same manner, in First World countries invest a considerable amount of money in training their athletes with emphasis on a good performance in international competition.
Even if classical anthropology has devoted considerable attention in the study of myths in ancient and contemporanean tribes, less attention was given to the influence of mythical archetype in modern sports.
Metaphorically, figure of Hero is imposed over the rest of mortals by divine desires; their names, feats and travesies are reminded in the light of oral tradition passed from generation to generation. Under such a context, we examine
The Myth of Hero, a work authored initially by Professor Hugo Francisco Bauzį who studied rigorously universal categories of heroism present in ancient and modern civilizations.
La recensione di Maximiliano E. Korstanje continua su Antrocom. Giornale Online di Antropologia,
volume 5, number 1, 2009.
