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If you want to find out what it means to have a society without any rituals, read the New York Times.
Joseph Campbell
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Joseph Campbell
Age: 83 †
Born: 1904
Born: March 26
Died: 1987
Died: October 30
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Ethnologist
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Historian Of Religion
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White Plains
New York
Joseph John Campbell
Joseph Cambell
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