Patterns of renewal

by Laurens Van der Post

Other authorsZoma Long (Cover designer)
Pamphlet, 1962

Status

Available

Call number

CP 121/2

Tags

psychology, religion, anthropology, spirituality

Collections

Your library, CP - PENDLE HILL PAMPHLETS

Publication

[Wallingford, Pa., 1962]

Subjects

Ethnopsychology
Folklore, Bushman

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This extraordinary and wonderful pamphlet is about the mythology of the African Bushmen, which is, he thinks, the earliest known "pattern of renewal," stories full of processes and symbols of renewal, that are still alive (in 1962) and accessible to us. He explains how our post-Enlightenment
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 culture needs what such mythology has to offer. He tells four of the stories, with illuminating commentary.
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CP 121/2

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5146

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