The foreign encounter in myth and religion : modes of foreign rel ations and political economy / Kees van der Pijl.
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TextSeries: Modes of foreign relations and political economy ; v. 2Publication details: London ; New York : Pluto Press ; New York : Distributed in the USA by Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.Description: xv, 243 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN: - 9780745323169 (hbk.)
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 223-235) and index.
Tribal foreign relations and mythical ancestry -- Sedentary-nomad en counters in Semitic myth and religion -- Warrior heroes in the Indo-Eur opean lineage -- Imperial cosmologies and the nomad counterpoint -- Riv al fundamentalisms on the imperial frontier.
The author traces the key characteristics of 'foreign encounters' ov er time, showing that myth, religion and ethical philosophies have alwa ys informed the way that societies have interacted with outsiders.
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