Author: RASSERS, W.H.,
Title: Panji, The Culture Hero. A structural study of Religion in Java. Second edition with an introduction by P.E. De Josselin de Jong.
Description: The Hague, Nijhoff, 1982. Stout 8°, original wrappers. (xix), 304pp.Portrair of W.H. Rassers, captioned black/white illustrations on 5 plates and 3 plans of a Javanese House with legenda at very end, references and bibliography to introduction, extensive footnotes, glossary, table of contents. [Translation Series, 3]. The second [expanded] edition of this famous scholarly anthropological study of religion, e.g. the meaning of Javanese drama, Siva and Buddha in the East Indian Archipelago, origin of the Javanese theatre and the Javanese Keris. Very good copy.

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