Author: James George Scott
Publisher:
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States
Author: James George Scott
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 678
Book Description
Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States
Author: Sir James George Scott
Publisher:
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 474
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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The Golden Bough: pt. II. Taboo and the perils of the soul. 1911
Author: James George Frazer
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Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Gazetteer of Upper Burma and the Shan States
Author: James George Scott
Publisher:
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Publisher:
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Category : Burma
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Department of the Army Pamphlet
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
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Category : Military art and science
Languages : en
Pages : 1162
Book Description
Folk-lore in the Old Testament
Author: James George Frazer
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 604
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Category : Bible
Languages : en
Pages : 604
Book Description
Asian Borderlands
Author: Charles Patterson Giersch
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674021716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
With comparative frontier history and pioneering use of indigenous sources, Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest. He focuses on the Tai domains of the Yunnan frontier on the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674021716
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 340
Book Description
With comparative frontier history and pioneering use of indigenous sources, Giersch provides a groundbreaking challenge to the China-centered narrative of the Qing conquest. He focuses on the Tai domains of the Yunnan frontier on the politically fluid borderlands, where local, indigenous leaders were crucial actors in an arena of imperial rivalry.
The Golden Bough: Taboo and the perils of the soul
Author: James George Frazer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 476
Book Description
The Golden Bough
Author: James George Frazer
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108047327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
The greatly revised and enlarged twelve-volume third edition (1911-15) of Sir James Frazer's controversial work on classical religion.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1108047327
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 469
Book Description
The greatly revised and enlarged twelve-volume third edition (1911-15) of Sir James Frazer's controversial work on classical religion.
The Golden Bough: Adonis, Attis, Osiris. The Myth of Adonis
Author: James George Frazer
Publisher:
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Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Frazer's series which attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.
Publisher:
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Category : Magic
Languages : en
Pages : 486
Book Description
Frazer's series which attempted to define the shared elements of religious belief and scientific thought, discussing fertility rites, human sacrifice, the dying god, the scapegoat, and many other symbols and practices whose influences had extended into 20th-century culture. His thesis is that old religions were fertility cults that revolved around the worship and periodic sacrifice of a sacred king. Frazer proposed that mankind progresses from magic through religious belief to scientific thought.