Echoes of the Ancestors: The Enduring Relevance of the Mythologies from our Ancient, African Ancestors - Paperback
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Echoes of the Ancestors by Marco C. Turco is the printed Cognella text on African myths, not an epub, and there is no free PDF on this page.
Turco asks readers to drop the stereotypes attached to Africa and to use its myths as a way of thinking about their own lives and present day problems.
How it is organized
The stories range across the continent and its islands, grouped in four units that move from the storyteller and the audience through origins to what the myths mean for tomorrow.
This revised first edition adds one myth that earlier printings lacked.
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Echoes of the Ancestors: The Enduring Relevance of the Mythologies from our Ancient, African Ancestors challenges readers to abandon their preconceived notions and the many stereotypes relegated to Africa and Africans, and to engage with a collection of African myths as a way to learn from the past and discover new solutions for modern challenges.
The book demonstrates the power of African myths to give meaning to experience. It offers readers a glimpse of the amazing diversity, knowledge, and ageless wisdom found in the mythology of the African continent. The text features stories from West, Central, East, and Southern African, as well as the African Islands. Readers are encouraged to engage with the stories and find new ways of understanding ancient stories with an emphasis on drawing connections to their own lives.
The book is organized into four distinct units that address: the storyteller, the audience, and the landscape; traditions, creativity, and memory; origins, alchemy, and home; and evolution, application, and tomorrow. Individual concepts and topics covered include ancestral wisdom, the role of the mystic, African mythological traditions, African creation myths, African mythological metaphors for life, personal mythologies, and more.
The revised first edition features coverage of a new myth, "The Woman with Two Skins."
Underscoring the concepts of healing, unitary participation, and positive transformation, Echoes of the Ancestors is an emotional and illuminating resource for courses in Africana studies and African and world mythology.
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