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MYTHS OF THE DOG-MAN
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| By: |
David Gordon White |
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Paperback |
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£30.00 |
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£27.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
0226895092 |
| ISBN 13: |
9780226895093 |
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| Publisher: |
THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS |
| Pub. date: |
1 February, 1991 |
| Pages: |
368 |
| Synopsis: |
"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"" |
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Frontispiece, xiv, 334 p., 14 halftones |
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US |
| Imprint: |
University of Chicago Press |
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