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Title:

The First storytellers [videorecording] / Apostrophe S Productions in association with Public Affairs Television, Inc. and Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc.

Format:

[videorecording] /

Publisher:

distributed by PBS Video,
distributed by PBS Video,

Copyright Date:

1988

Description:

1 videocassette (60 min.) : sd., col. ; 1/2 in.

Subject:

Campbell, Joseph--1904-1988--Interviews.
Death--Mythology.
Myth.
Religious historians--Interviews.
Ritual.

Other Authors:

Moyers, Bill D.
Alvin H. Perlmutter, Inc.
Apostrophe S Productions.
PBS Video.
Public Affairs Television, Inc.

Other Titles:

Joseph Campbell and the power of myth with Bill Moyers (Television program)

Notes:

Originally shown on the television program: Joseph Campbell and the power of myth with Bill Moyers. VHS format.

Summary:

Campbell discusses the importance of accepting death as rebirth as in the myth of the buffalo and the story of Christ, the rite of passage in primitive societies, the role of mystic Shamans, and the decline of ritual in today's society.

LCCN:

92000049

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

WHPE115 -- Storm Lake Public Library (Storm Lake)

HWAX074 -- Hawkeye Community College Library (Waterloo)