Comparing Mythologies

Comparing Mythologies
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Publisher : Charles R. Bronfman Lecture in
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Download or read book Comparing Mythologies written by Tomson Highway and published by Charles R. Bronfman Lecture in. This book was released on 2003 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Tomson Highway is one of Canada's foremost playwrights and novelists. In Comparing Mythologies he addresses a theme that is central to much of his work: the ways that Canadian culture today is shaped by the mixture of Aboriginal and Western mythologies. What interests him is not merely the differences between these cultures, but the ways that inherited beliefs enable Native communities to cope with the cultural and social challenges facing them today."--pub. desc.


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