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Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans: The Epic Tradition of the Ainu

Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans: The Epic Tradition of the Ainu

Phillipi, Donald L.
Snyder, Gary

Paperback

Series: Princeton Legacy Library, Book 1466

Literary CriticismMythology & FolklorePoetry Criticism

ISBN10: 0691608814
ISBN13: 9780691608815
Publisher: Princeton Univ Pr
Published: Mar 8 2015
Pages: 436
Weight: 1.66
Height: 0.89 Width: 7.00 Depth: 10.00
Language: English

As an especially beautiful and pure example of the archaic epic styles that were once current among the hunting and fishing peoples of northern Asia, the Ainu epic folklore is of immense literary value. This collection and English translation by Donald Philippi contains thirty-three representative selections from a number of epic genres including mythic epics, culture hero epics, women's epics, and heroic epics. This is the first time, outside of Japan, that the Ainu epic folklore has been treated in a comprehensive manner.

Originally published in 1979.

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