Ritual Encounters: Otavalan Modern and Mythic Community 0252092872, 9780252092879

Mythic Worlds, Modern Words 9781608684175, 9781611780314, 9781543662498

In 1927, as a twenty-three-year-old postgraduate scholar in Paris, Joseph Campbell first encountered James Joyce’s Ulyss

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Mimesis and Pacific Transcultural Encounters: Making Likenesses in Time, Trade, and Ritual Reconfigurations 9781785336256

How do images circulating in Pacific cultures and exchanged between them and their many visitors transform meanings for

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Sexual Encounters: Pacific Texts, Modern Sexualities 9781501717369

European literary, artistic, and anthropological representation has long viewed the Pacific as the site of heterosexual

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The Rousing Drum: Ritual Practice in a Japanese Community 9780824864996

Ritual is too often equated with unvarying or repetitive behavior. This impression is encouraged by the ethnographic ten

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Otavalan Women, Ethnicity, and Globalization [1 ed.] 9780826349934, 9780826349910

While doing fieldwork in Peguche, Ecuador, Linda D'Amico found herself working with and befriending Rosa Lema, a wo

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Mediterranean Encounters: Trade and Pluralism in Early Modern Galata 9780520964310

Mediterranean Encounters traces the layered history of Galata—a Mediterranean and Black Sea port—to the Ottoman conquest

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Persephone Rising: mythic poetry 9781463217259

Persephone Rising is the story of the Greek goddess Persephone that brings to life the ancient world of Greek myth to a

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Mock Ritual in the Modern Era (OXFORD RITUAL STUDIES SERIES) 9780197637456, 9780197637432, 0197637450

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Kenneth Burke’s Weed Garden: Refiguring the Mythic Grounds of Modern Rhetoric 9780271094281

Since its publication in 1950, Kenneth Burke’s A Rhetoric of Motives has been one of the most influential texts of theor

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Mock Ritual in the Modern Era (OXFORD RITUAL STUDIES SERIES) 9780197637432, 0197637434

Mock Ritual in the Modern Era explores the complex interrelations between ritual and mockery, the latter of which is not

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