Описание: This compilation of Maori oral literature was commissioned in 1879 by the New Zealand government to help preserve indigenous traditions. The ethnographer John White (1826-91) collected the texts and provided accompanying English translations. Volume 1 (1887) includes narratives about the Horouta canoe, the gods and the creation of humans.
Описание: This compilation of Maori oral literature was commissioned in 1879 by the New Zealand government to help preserve indigenous traditions. The ethnographer John White (1826-91) collected the texts and provided accompanying English translations. Volume 3 (1887) includes narratives about the rainbow god Uenuku, and the South Island Maori.
Описание: This compilation of Maori oral literature was commissioned in 1879 by the New Zealand government to help preserve indigenous traditions. The ethnographer John White (1826-91) collected the texts and provided accompanying English translations. Volume 5 (1888) contains Tainui migration narratives and describes violent events including famous intertribal wars.
Описание: This compilation of Maori oral literature was commissioned in 1879 by the New Zealand government to help preserve indigenous traditions. The ethnographer John White (1826-91) collected the texts and provided accompanying English translations. Volume 4 (1888) focuses on the Tainui migration and on the legendary ancestor Paoa.
Автор: Smith Название: Hawaiki: The Original Home of the Maori ISBN: 1108039952 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108039956 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 4594.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: The New Zealand government surveyor Stephenson Percy Smith (1840-1922) was fascinated by the history and traditions of the Maori. This study, first published in book form in 1898 and revised for this third edition of 1910, outlines his influential, though now superseded, theories about Maori and Polynesian origins.
Автор: Gray David B., Overbey Ryan Richard Название: Tantric Traditions in Transmission and Translation ISBN: 0199763690 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780199763696 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5859.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Tantric traditions in both Buddhism and Hinduism are thriving throughout Asia and in Asian diasporic communities around the world, yet they have been largely ignored by Western scholars. This collection of original essays fills this gap by examining the ways in which Tantric Buddhist traditions have changed over time and distance.
Описание: Explores the intertwined character of the three religions and the dense imbrication of religion in all aspects of Yoruba history up to the present. This title offers an insight into important contemporary themes such as religious conversion, new religious movements, relations between world religions, the conditions of religious violence, and more.
Описание: This compilation of Maori oral literature was commissioned in 1879 by the New Zealand government to help preserve indigenous traditions. The ethnographer John White (1826-91) collected the texts and provided accompanying English translations. Volume 2 (1887) contains narratives including Rona and the Moon, and the exploits of Maui.
Автор: Shortland Название: Maori Religion and Mythology ISBN: 1108040624 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108040624 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 3326.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This important account of Maori mythology, religion and concepts of authority was first published in 1882. Based closely on texts written down or dictated by Maori themselves, and translated by Shortland, it includes lists of vocabulary about kinship and the spirit world, as well as information on Maori land tenure.
Описание: The eminent art historian and textual critic Richard Payne Knight (1751-1824) investigates the sexual symbolism present in the art of different cultures. The renowned 1818 comparative study provides a key to the mythology of the ancients, and fosters an understanding of the canons and principles of art.
Автор: Rink Название: Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo ISBN: 1108070973 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108070973 Издательство: Cambridge Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 6018.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: Published in English in 1875, this work is a condensed version of a two-volume study of Inuit folk tales and customs observed in Greenland by Hinrich Rink (1819-93) and first published in Danish in 1866 and 1871. Illuminating Inuit culture, the work was revised and translated by Rink himself.
Автор: Morin Olivier Название: How Traditions Live and Die ISBN: 0190210508 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780190210502 Издательство: Oxford Academ Рейтинг: Цена: 5701.00 р. Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Описание: This book brings together cognitive science and quantitative cultural history to look into the causes of cultural survival. Instead of blind and faithful imitation, it explores the appeal of traditions evolved to fit cognitive biases. This is both an introduction and an alternative to contemporary theories of cultural evolution.
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