"This work is one of two books that won the 1997 Boyer Prize in psychoanalytic anthropology. The award is well deserved . . . this book makes major contributions to psychological and symbolic anthropology, folklore, evolutionary psychology, and psychonaysis."—Dan W. Forsyth, University of Southern Colorado

• Part I. Analysis: 1. Introduction; 2. A brief history of research on family-complex tales; 3. The evidence from world folk literature; 4. The theory of the family complex in folk literature; 5. Conclusion; Part II. The Folktales: 1. Europe and Euro-America; 2. Middle East and Africa; 3. South and East Asia; 4. Oceania; 5. Native North America; 6. Native South America.

"This work is one of two books that won the 1997 Boyer Prize in psychoanalytic anthropology. The award is well deserved . . . this book makes major contributions to psychological and symbolic anthropology, folklore, evolutionary psychology, and psychonaysis."—Dan W. Forsyth, University of Southern Colorado

• Part I. Analysis: 1. Introduction; 2. A brief history of research on family-complex tales; 3. The evidence from world folk literature; 4. The theory of the family complex in folk literature; 5. Conclusion; Part II. The Folktales: 1. Europe and Euro-America; 2. Middle East and Africa; 3. South and East Asia; 4. Oceania; 5. Native North America; 6. Native South America.

"This work is one of two books that won the 1997 Boyer Prize in psychoanalytic anthropology. The award is well deserved . . . this book makes major contributions to psychological and symbolic anthropology, folklore, evolutionary psychology, and psychonaysis."—Dan W. Forsyth, University of Southern Colorado

• Part I. Analysis: 1. Introduction; 2. A brief history of research on family-complex tales; 3. The evidence from world folk literature; 4. The theory of the family complex in folk literature; 5. Conclusion; Part II. The Folktales: 1. Europe and Euro-America; 2. Middle East and Africa; 3. South and East Asia; 4. Oceania; 5. Native North America; 6. Native South America.