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Book | Leiden University catalogue |
Title: | New perspectives on myth: proceedings of the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology, Ravenstein (The Netherlands), 19-21 August, 2008 |
Editors: | Binsbergen, Wim M.J. van Venbrux, Eric |
Chapter(s): | Present |
Year: | 2010 |
Issue: | 5 |
Pages: | 466 |
Language: | English |
Series: | PIP-TraCS - Papers in Intercultural Philosophy and Transcontinental Comparative Studies |
City of publisher: | Haarlem |
Publisher: | Shikanda |
ISBN: | 9789078382072 |
Geographic terms: | Africa Cameroon Mali Nigeria Zambia |
Subjects: | myths death conference papers (form) 2008 |
Abstract: | This book contains the papers given at the Second Annual Conference of the International Association for Comparative Mythology (IACM) held at Ravenstein, The Netherlands, in August 2008. After an introductory chapter, the second part of the book, Mythology of Death and Dying, contains one contribution about Africa: Tales of death and regeneration in West Africa by Walter E.A. van Beek (on the Kapsiki of Cameroon and Dogon of Mali). Part Three looks at Mythological Continuities between Africa and Other Continents. The contributions are: The emergence of the first people from the underworld: another cosmogonic myth of a possible African origin by Yuri Berezkin; Myths, indigenous culture, and traditions as tools in reconstructing contested histories: the Ife-Modakeke example by Bukola Adeyemi Oyeniyi (Yorubaland, Nigeria); The continuity of African and Eurasian mythologies: general theoretical models, and detailed comparative discussion of the case of Nkoya mythology from Zambia, South Central Africa by Wim van Binsbergen; Pan-Gaean flood myths: Gondwana myths - and beyond by Michael Witzel; Hephaistos vs. Ptah by Václav Bla˙ézek; and Can Japanese mythology contribute to comparative Eurasian mythology? by Kazuo Matsumura. Parts 4 and 5 contain papers on Theoretical and Methodological Advances, and Work in Progress. [ASC Leiden abstract] |