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Myths of the Dog-Man by David Gordon White (1991, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
ISBN-100226895092
ISBN-139780226895093
eBay Product ID (ePID)83998
Product Key Features
Number of Pages348 Pages
Publication NameMyths of the Dog-Man
LanguageEnglish
SubjectFolklore & Mythology, Comparative Religion
Publication Year1991
TypeTextbook
AuthorDavid Gordon White
Subject AreaReligion, Social Science
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height1 in
Item Weight18.1 Oz
Item Length9 in
Item Width6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN90-043597
Dewey Edition20
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal291.2/12
Table Of ContentList of Illustrations Foreword by Wendy Doniger Preface 1. Hell Is Other People 2. The Cynocephalic Saint 3. The Cynocephalic Hordes 4. Visvamitra and the Dog-Cookers 5. Dog-Cookers and Other Borderline Cases in Ancient and Medieval India 6. Central Asia: The Vortex of Cynanthropy 7. Chinese Dog-Man Traditions: P'an Hu and the Ch'uan Jung 8. Barbarians in Ancient China 9. Facing Up to Other People Notes Selected Bibliography Index
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
LC Classification NumberBL443.D64W45 1991
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