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"An impressive and important cross-cultural study that has vast implications for history, religion, anthropology, folklore, and other fields. . . . Remarkably wide-ranging and extremely well-documented, it covers (among much else) the following: medieval Christian legends such as the 14th-century Ethiopian "Gadla Hawaryat" (Contendings of the Apostles) that had their roots in Parthian Gnosticism and Manichaeism; dog-stars (especially Sirius), dog-days, and canine psychopomps in the ancient and Hellenistic world; the cynocephalic hordes of the ancient geographers; the legend of Prester John; Visvamitra and the Svapacas ("Dog-Cookers"); the Dog Rong ("warlike barbarians") during the Xia, Shang, and Zhou periods; the "nochoy ghajar" (Mongolian for "Dog Country") of the Khitans; the Panju myth of the Southern Man and Yao "barbarians" from chapter 116 of the "History of the Latter Han" and variants in a series of later texts; and the importance of dogs in ancient Chinese burial rites. . . . Extremely well-researched and highly significant." Victor H. Mair, "Asian Folklore Studies""
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This is a remarkable wide-ranging book, so grand in scope that it is hard to realize that it is the author's first full-length publication. It is remarkable not only for its style, which is a sheer joy to read, full of word-play and irony and passion and weird anecdotes, but for the brilliance of its central thesis and the erudition with which that thesis is developed. It is also an important book, for it deals with a subject that is of central interest to anthropologists, historians, and historians of religion today--the subject of Otherness.
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David Gordon White is a visiting assistant professor in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of Virginia. He divides his time among the United States, Europe, and India.
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- PublisherUniversity of Chicago Press
- Publication date1991
- ISBN 10 0226895084
- ISBN 13 9780226895086
- BindingHardcover
- Number of pages368
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. 1st Edition. First printing with full number line on copyright page. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering on spine. Slight rubbing to edges; creasing to tail of spine. No dust jacket. Tight binding and clean interior. Includes a section with 14 halftone illustrations as well as a frontispiece. This book is a cross-cultural study examining mythology from Europe, India, and China that relates to dog-headed men, monsters, and otherness. Seller Inventory # 0021821
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Book Description orig.cloth. Condition: Minor rubbing, VG. 13pp photo illustrations (illustrator). 23x15cm, xiv,334,(13)pp, Foreword by Wendy Doniger. Contents: Hell is Other People; The Cynocephalic Saint; The Cynocephalic Hordes; Visvamitra & the Dog-Cookers; Dog-Cookers & other Borderline Cases in Ancient & Medieval India; Central Asia: The Vortex of Cyanthropy; Chinese Dog-Man Traditions: P'an Hu & the Ch'uan Jung; Barbarians in Ancient China; Facing up to Other People. Seller Inventory # 000150
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