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Comparative Mythology on the Earth and Humankind: Past, Present and Future
Comparative Mythology on the Earth and Humankind: Past, Present and Future

Author(s): Irina Aleksandrovna Sedakova, Marina Mihajlovna Valencova
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Eesti Kirjandusmuuseum

Summary/Abstract: The 12th Conference of the International Association on Comparative Mythology (IACM)under the general title Myths of the Earth and Humankind: Ecology and the Endof the World took place in Sendai, Japan, on June 1–4, 2018. The conference washosted by Tohoku University, with Professor Hitoshi Yamada as chair of the organizingcommittee. These annual IACM meetings started at the founding conference inBejing, China, in 2006, and were followed by eleven symposiums organized in variouscountries. Professor of Sanskrit Michael Witzel (Harvard University) is the presidentof the IACM (for more information on the Association see http://www.compmyth.org).

  • Issue Year: 2018
  • Issue No: 74
  • Page Range: 155-164
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: English