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Technicians of the sacred : a range of poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania / edited with commentaries by Jerome Rothenberg.
LIBRA PN1347 .T43 2017
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Religious poetry.
- Incantations--Poetry.
- Incantations.
- Rites and ceremonies--Poetry.
- Rites and ceremonies.
- Folk poetry.
- Folk songs--Texts.
- Folk songs.
- Genre:
- Poetry.
- Texts.
- Physical Description:
- xxxix, 643 pages ; 23 cm
- Edition:
- Third edition, revised and expanded.
- Place of Publication:
- Oakland, California : University of California Press, [2017]
- Summary:
- "A wide-ranging anthology of ethnopoetry including origin texts, visionary texts, texts about death, texts about events--collected from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Ancient Near East, and Oceania."--Provided by publiher.
- Contents:
- The texts
- Origins & namings
- Visions & spels
- Death & defeat
- The book of events (I)
- The book of events (II)
- Africa
- America
- Asia
- Europe & the Ancient Near East
- Oceania
- Survivals & revivals
- The statements
- The commentaries.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 9780520290716
- 0520290712
- 9780520290723
- 0520290720
- OCLC:
- 973481571
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