Technicians of the sacred
Subtitle: a range of poetries from Africa, America, Asia, Europe, and Oceania
By: edited with commentaries by Jerome Rothenberg
Edition: Third edition, revised and expanded.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2017
Language: eng
Number of pages: 643
ISBN-13: 9780520290716; 9780520290723
Subjects: Texts; Folk poetry; Incantations; Religious poetry; Folk songs; Poetry; Rites and ceremonies
Description: "A wide-ranging anthology of ethnopoetry including origin texts, visionary texts, texts about death, texts about events--collected from Africa, the Americas, Asia, Europe and the Ancient Near East, and Oceania."--Provided by publiher.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: The texts; title: Origins & namings; title: Visions & spels; title: Death & defeat; title: The book of events (I); title: The book of events (II); title: Africa; title: America; title: Asia; title: Europe & the Ancient Near East; title: Oceania; title: Survivals & revivals; title: The statements; title: The commentaries.