A short history of myth / Karen Armstrong.
A short history of myth / Karen Armstrong.
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Edinburgh : Canongate, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N398.2/77
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English
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159 p. ; 21 cm.
Contents
What is a myth? -- Palaeolithic Period : Mythology of the hunters (c. 20000 to 8000 BCE) -- Neolithic Period : Mythology of the farmers (c. 8000 to 4000 BCD) -- Early civilisations (c. 4000 to 800 BCE) -- Axial Age (c. 800 to 200 BCE) -- Post-Axial Period (c. 200 BCE to c. 1500 CE) -- Great Western...
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Edinburgh : Canongate, 2005.
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Scotland
Date Published
2005.
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Human beings have always been mythmakers. Theologian Armstrong here investigates myth: what it is, how it has evolved, and why we still so desperately need it. She takes us from the Paleolithic period and the myths of the hunters, up to the Great Western Transformation of the last five hundred years and the discrediting of myth by science. The hist...
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A short history of myth / Karen Armstrong.
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Includes bibliography.
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N398.2/77
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74VK6qKMzoNZ
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VK6qKMzoNZ
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184195716X (pbk.)
9781841956442
1841956449
9781841957234 (pbk.)
1841957232 (pbk.)
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398.209 201.309
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991020813729702626
