A Reasonable Doubt About Crash Course Mythology

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Crash Course recently launched a series about mythology. Here, we take a little critical look at the books they relied (maybe too heavily) on, especially in regard to two african creation myths, from the Kono people of Guinea and the Bushongo people of Congo. • What went wrong exactly? [Timestamps and link to the script below] • 00:00 Introduction • 00:45 Part One : What Crash Course Copied In Leeming's Book • 11:00 Part Two : The Kono Myth of Alatangana and Death • 19:00 Part Three : The Bushongo Tale of Mbumba's Creation • 28:21 Part Four : A Reasonable Doubt about the Initial Doubt • 34:08 Conclusion : The Problem With Bite-Sized Mythology • 41:31 Credits share subscribe etc. • Crash Course Mythology episodes used : • CCM #1 : • What Is Myth? Crash Course World Myth... • CCM #2 : • Creation from the Void: Crash Course ... • CCM #3 : • Cosmic Sexy Time, Eggs, Seeds, and Wa... • TEXT OF THIS EPISODE, WITH FOOTNOTES AND LINKS TO REFERENCES ETC . : • https://docs.google.com/document/d/1f... [on Google Drive] • EDIT : Very thankful to Andrew from Religion From Breakfast for mentioning this video in his review of Crash Course Mythology • Crash Course Mythology Review • Of course, the video was written and edited when only a handful of episodes were out, so you can see me guess at what it will entail. I even supposed that it was entirely possible that the omissions were made on purpose, to come back to it later and say to the audience : gotcha, here is the context of this myth . • I have to say that I could make another video about their video on the Holy Grail ? I think they completely missed the mark about what happens in Le Conte du Graal by Chrétien de Troyes, as I've said in this comment : • Galahad, Perceval, and the Holy Grail... • I think this is because they relied on Thury Devinney but I have not been able yet to check the fourth edition where the arthurian chapter was added. • BIBLIOGRAPHY : • (only the most cited works, for the rest, check the script) • HAMILTON, Virginia, In the Beginning, Creation stories from all around the world, 1991. https://books.google.ch/books?id=6C9J... [Google Books] • HOLAS, Bohumil Théophile • Échantillons du folklore Kono, 195? • Le Culte de Zié, 1955 • Contes Kono, 1975. • LEEMING, David, The World of Myth, 1992. (I mistakenly give 1996 as a date, while I used the 1992 edition) https://books.google.ch/books?id=OzPL... [Google Books] • TORDAY • Les Bushongos, 1910. http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6... [on Gallica] • On the trail of the Bushongo, 1925. https://archive.org/details/ontrailof... [on archive.org] • VANSINA, Jan, Being Colonized, The Kuba Experience in rural Congo, 2010. • ARTICLES etc. • Plagiarism examples : • https://www.theguardian.com/education... • http://time.com/4126853/south-korea-p... • Christina Wilkie's tweet : / 849466954549260292 • Bryan Logan, Neil Gorsuch is accused of plagiarism […] , Business Insider, http://www.businessinsider.com/neil-g... (5 apr 2017) • Andrew Chesnut, Creative Writing Professor Lifts My Santa Muerte Research in CNN Trailer , HuffPost http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/c... (20 mar 2017) • TIME article on the 800 wives http://content.time.com/time/magazine... (1962) • PICTURES • Drawings for the Kono creation story are by Togba Traoré Moloumou and found in Holas 1975. • Did I Plagiarize Infographic http://thevisualcommunicationguy.com/... • Bas Relief of Marcus Aurelius https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fi... • Picture of Lévi-Strauss from : • https://www.lesechos.fr/04/11/2009/Le... • Religion for breakfast on youtube : / religionforbreakfast • Photo by João Silas https://unsplash.com/photos/qEL9_TmC1nY • Photo by Eli Francis https://unsplash.com/photos/_M-DrbiNFa4 • MOVIES : • They Called It White Man's Burden https://archive.org/details/theycalle... (1956, archive.org) • Footage from 1915 Guinea • Conakry (Guinée/Guinea) 1915 • German airplane factory https://archive.org/details/74532Germ... (archive.org)

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