Native American Mythology

Native American Mythology
ISBN-10
0486122794
ISBN-13
9780486122793
Series
Native American Mythology
Category
Social Science
Pages
384
Language
English
Published
2012-03-07
Publisher
Courier Corporation
Author
Hartley Burr Alexander

Description

This fascinating and informative compendium, assembled by a celebrated anthropologist, offers a remarkably wide range of nomadic sagas, animist myths, cosmogonies and creation myths, end-time prophecies, and other traditional tales.

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