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Yves Bonnefoy

Asian Mythologies

English · Paperback / Softback

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Summary

These 130 articles explore mythologies in societies from India to Japan. Among the many topics are Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Indonesian rites of passage, Chinese cosmology and demons, and Japanese conceptions of the afterlife and the "vital spirit."

Product details

Assisted by	Yves Bonnefoy (Editor), Wendy Doniger (Translation)
Publisher	University Of Chicago Press

Languages	English
Product format	Paperback / Softback
Released	15.05.1993

EAN	9780226064567
ISBN	978-0-226-06456-7
No. of pages	400
Dimensions	216 mm x 279 mm x 19 mm
Weight	938 g
Subjects	Non-fiction book > Politics, society, business > Society Asien

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