The Raven and the Totem de John Smelcer

The Raven and the Totem

John Smelcer

This is a collection of Alaska Native folklore and mythology. All the various regions and tribal groups are represented in this collection. The collector is John Smelcer who is a writer, poet, and folklorist and who is himself a member of an Alaska Native tribe. Several of the stories are accompanied by illustrations by Larry Vienneau. This work was originally published in Alaska in 1992. This is the second, revised and expanded edition.

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John Smelcer, Ph.D., es autor de más de cincuenta libros, muchos traducidos y publicados internacionalmente. Su libro más vendido de mitología, The Raven and the Totem, incluye un prólogo de Joseph Campbell (The Power of Myth). Con el arzobispo ortodoxo ruso Benjamin, John contribuyó con la revisión del mapa global del cristianismo en la décima edición de Living Religiones (Mary Pat Fisher, Ed.). Con el Dalai Lama, John coeditó un poema sobre la compasión. Con astrofísicos y escritores populares de ciencia, Carl Sagan (Cosmos), John sostuvo serias discusiones sobre ciencia y religión. La educación del Dr. Smelcer incluyen estudios postdoctorales en Cambridge, Oxford, y Harvard, donde estudió budismo, islamismo y sufismo, confusionismo, hinduismo, jainismo, y cristianismo, incluyendo al Jesús histórico de Nazaret. With over fifty published books, John Smelcer is one of the most prolific writers in America. He studied religion at Harvard University, including a course in the historical Jesus of Nazareth.