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This morning I came across this:
Why Folklorists Hate Campbell
Yep. Aside from his ethnocentric patriarchal approach to tales that are wrenched out of all context, he makes really boneheaded errors that he shouldn't have made.
Like using bowdlerized translations; he uses Lady Charlotte Guest's translation of the Mabinogi, a translation with a Victorian sensibility that censors some pretty important parts of the Mabinogi.
He equates all representations of divinity with a Romanized Western pantheon, for instance. Even in reference to non-related languages.