Myths of the Dog-Man - Couverture souple

White, David Gordon Gordon

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0226895092 ISBN 13 : 9780226895093

Editeur : University of Chicago Press, 1991

Synopsis

Book by White David Gordon

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur :

An impressive and important cross-cultural study that has vast implications for history, religion, anthropology, folklore, and other fields. . . . Remarkably wide-ranging and extremely well-documented, it covers (among much else) the following: medieval Christian legends such as the 14th-century Ethiopian Gadla Hawaryat (Contendings of the Apostles) that had their roots in Parthian Gnosticism and Manichaeism; dog-stars (especially Sirius), dog-days, and canine psychopomps in the ancient and Hellenistic world; the cynocephalic hordes of the ancient geographers; the legend of Prester John; Visvamitra and the Svapacas (Dog-Cookers"); the Dog Rong ("warlike barbarians") during the Xia, Shang, and Zhou periods; the nochoy ghajar (Mongolian for "Dog Country") of the Khitans; the Panju myth of the Southern Man and Yao "barbarians" from chapter 116 of the History of the Latter Han and variants in a series of later texts; and the importance of dogs in ancient Chinese burial rites. . . . Extremely well-researched and highly significant" Victor H. Mair, Asian Folklore Studies

Biographie de l'auteur :

David Gordon White is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He divides his time among the United States, Europe, and India.

À propos de cette édition

• Éditeur: University of Chicago Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• ISBN 10: 0226895092
• ISBN 13: 9780226895093
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 348