Historical Atlas of World Mythology, in Five Volumes -- Volume I: The Way of the Animal Powers, Parts 1 & 2: Mythologies of the Primitive Hunters and Gatherers; Mythologies of the Great Hunt; and Volume II: The Way of the Seeded Earth, Parts 1-3: The Sacrifice; Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Northern Americas; Mythologies of the Primitive Planters: The Middle and Southern Americas
New York: Perennial Library / Harper & Row, 1988. Large Softcover. Near Fine. Item #2352433
Three of five volumes still in plastic wrap. Bindings tight and square, pages clean and unmarked.
Complete in five paperback volumes. Color and black-and-white photographs and illustrations throughout. "The Historical Atlas of World Mythology is a multi-volume series of books by Joseph Campbell that traces developments in humankind's mythological symbols and stories from pre-history forward. Campbell is perhaps best known as a comparativist who focused on universal themes and motifs in human culture. He first conceived of The Historical Atlas in the late 1970s as an extension of his works, The Mythic Image and The Masks of God. Like those books, The Historical Atlas of World Mythology intended to show the ways in which those universal themes and motifs were expressed differently by different cultures in different times and places. Heavily illustrated and annotated, with numerous charts and maps to show both variations and similarities in different cultures' expressions of mythic themes, this series was intended to serve both academic and lay readers. The Historical Atlas was left partially complete when Campbell died in 1987."
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