Author: Joseph Campbell
Publisher: Penguin (Non-Classics)
Keywords: mythology, occidental, vol, god, masks
Number of Pages: 576
Published: 1991-11-01
List price: $20.00
ISBN-10: 014019441X
ISBN-13: 9780140194418

Campbell offers a systematic and fascinating comparison of the themes that underlie the art, worship, and literature of the Western world. "The high function of Occidental myth and ritual . . . is to establish a means of relationship--of God to Man and Man to God."--Joseph Campbell.

Author: H. G. W. Woodhead
Publisher: Jennings Press
Keywords: problem, eastern, interpretations, occidental
Number of Pages: 268
Published: 2007-03-15
List price: $28.95
ISBN-10: 1406741523
ISBN-13: 9781406741520

OCCIDENTAL INTER PRETATIONS OF THE FAR EASTERN PROBLEM Lectures on the Harris Foundation 1925 By H. G. W. WOODHEAD, C. B. E. n Editor of The Peking and Tientsin Times and of The China Year Book JULEAN ARNOLD American Commercial Attache at Peking, China HENRY KITTREDGE NORTON Author of The Far Eastern Republic of Siberia THE UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO PRESS CHICAGO ILLINOIS COPYRIGHT 1926 BY THE UNIVERSITY ov CHICAGO All Rights Reserved Published January 1926 Composed and Printed By The University of Chicago Press Chicago, Illinois, U. S. A. PREFACE The Harris Foundation Lectures at the Uni versity

Author: Patrick Manning
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Keywords: african, trades, studies, slave, occidental, life, slavery, oriental
Number of Pages: 252
Published: 1990-09-28
List price: $33.99
ISBN-10: 0521348676
ISBN-13: 9780521348676

This interpretation of the impact of slavery on African life emphasizes the importance of external demand for slaves by Occidental and Oriental purchasers in developing an active trade in slaves within Africa. The book summarizes a wide range of recent literature on slavery for all of tropical Africa. It analyzes the demography, economics, social structure and ideology of slavery in Africa from the beginning of large-scale slave exports in the seventeenth century to the gradual elimination of slavery in the twentieth century. While primarily a general survey, Dr. Manning presents original re