Primitive song / by C. M. Bowra.

Includes index.

"A mentor book, MT499."

Between pages 128 and 129 are 24 pages of photographs categorized as follows: hunting, dancing, and art. Titles and photo credits are listed on pages vii - ix.

This resouce includes a section that denotes the abbreviations utilized throughout the text.

1. Primitive man, ancient and modern -- 2. Composition and performance -- 3. Technique -- 4. Manner and method -- 5. Songs of action -- 6. The natural scene -- 7. The human cycle -- 8. Primitive imagination -- 9. Myth and symbol -- 10. Some conclusions.

"The noted classical scholar studies the seed-roots of literature - how it began in songs reflecting the lives and superstitions of primitive peoples...." -- from the front cover

"Stone agers still exist in the modern world. Pygmies, aboriginal Australians, Eskimos, Andamanese, Bushmen. They still sing of the struggles of primitive life; still chant to their implacable gods. Sir Maurice Bowra, the famous author of the Greek experience, examines the songs of the surviving counterparts of the paleolithic man. He uncovers exciting new territory as he traces the beginning of literature in extant primitive song...the dawn of the creatice power that made the transfer of experience -- and thus civilization -- possible." -- from the back cover.

From the library of Karl and Elizabeth Niebyl.