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Songs of Gods, Songs of Humans: The Epic Tradition of the Ainu
By (Author) Donald L. Phillipi
Foreword by Gary Snyder
Princeton University Press
Princeton University Press
28th June 2016
United States
Tertiary Education
Non Fiction
Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)
894.6
Hardback
436
Width 178mm, Height 254mm
964g
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 m