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Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals - India

Baksheesh and Brahman: Asian Journals - India

Campbell, Joseph

Hardcover

Series: Collected Works of Joseph Campbell

General Eastern ReligionsIndia & South Asia

ISBN10: 1577312376
ISBN13: 9781577312376
Publisher: New World Library
Pages: 400
Weight: 1.46
Height: 1.34 Width: 5.88 Depth: 8.72
Language: English
After ten years of intensive study of Indian art and philosophy, Joseph Campbell, at 50, finally embarked on a journey to India. Searching for the transcendent (Brahman), he found instead stark realities: growing nationalism, religious rivalry, poverty, and a prevalent culture of what he called baksheesh, or alms. This journal chronicles the disillusionment and revelation that would change the course of Campbell s life and study, and his transition from professor to counterculture icon. Balancing Campbell s astute explorations of mythology and history are his often amusing observations of a sometimes frustrating alien culture and his fellow Western travelers. This account also includes personal photographs, specially commissioned maps, and illustrations redrawn from Campbell s own hand.

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