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Between Culture and Fantasy: A New Guinea Highlands Mythology
ISBN: 9780226293813 / Angielski / Miękka / 416 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The myths of the Gimi, a people of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, attribute the origin of death and misery to the incestuous desires of the first woman or man, as if one sex or the other were guilty of the very first misdeed. Working for years among the Gimi, speaking their language, anthropologist Gillian Gillison gained rare insight into these myths and their pervasive influence in the organization of social life. Hers is a fascinating account of relations between the sexes and the role of myth in the transition between unconscious fantasy and cultural forms.
Gillison shows... The myths of the Gimi, a people of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, attribute the origin of death and misery to the incestuous desires of th...
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205,38 zł |
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The Jealous Potter
ISBN: 9780226474823 / Angielski / Miękka / 260 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. As Levi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and squirrels interweave with discussions of Freud, Saussure, "signification," and plays by Sophocles and Labiche. Levi-Strauss critiques psychoanalytic interpretation and defends the interpretive powers of structuralism.
"Electrifying. . . . A brilliant demonstration of structural analysis in action. . . . Can be read with pleasure and profit by anyone interested in that aspect of self-discovery that comes through knowledge of the universal and... As Levi-Strauss freely explores the mythologies of the Americas, with occasional incursions into European and Japanese folklore, tales of sloths and s...
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123,23 zł |
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The Naked Man: Mythologiques, Volume 4
ISBN: 9780226474960 / Angielski / Miękka / 746 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "The Naked Man is the fourth and final volume of Mythologiques], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial anthropologist of our time. . . . Myths from North and South America are set side by side to show their transformations: in passing from person to person and place to place, a myth can change its content and yet retain its structural principles. . . . Apart from the complicated transformations discovered and the fascinating constructions placed on these, the stories themselves provide a feast."-Betty Abel, Contemporary Review ...
"The Naked Man is the fourth and final volume of Mythologiques], written by the most influential and probably the most controversial an...
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189,98 zł |
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Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology & Practice
ISBN: 9780226482002 / Angielski / Miękka / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. One of the world's leading specialists in Indo-European
religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays his severe doubts about the existence of a much-hypothesized prototypical Indo-European religion. Written over fifteen years, the essays six of them previously unpublished fall into three parts. Part I deals with matters "Indo-European" in a relatively unproblematized way, exploring a set of haunting images that recur in descriptions of the Otherworld from many cultures. While Lincoln later rejects this methodology, these chapters remain the best... One of the world's leading specialists in Indo-European
religion and society, Bruce Lincoln expresses in these essays his severe doubts about th... |
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189,98 zł |
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Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship
ISBN: 9780226482026 / Angielski / Miękka / 320 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In Theorizing Myth, Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of stories, usually those told by others. He begins by showing that mythos yielded to logos not as part of a (mythic) "Greek miracle," but as part of struggles over political, linguistic, and epistemological authority occasioned by expanded use of writing and the practice of Athenian democracy. Lincoln then turns his attention to the period when myth was recuperated as a privileged type of narrative, a process he locates in the...
In Theorizing Myth, Bruce Lincoln traces the way scholars and others have used the category of "myth" to fetishize or deride certain kinds of ...
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154,04 zł |
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Other Peoples' Myths: The Cave of Echoes
ISBN: 9780226618579 / Angielski / Miękka / 240 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. "Other People's Myths" celebrates the universal art of storytelling, and the rich diversity of stories that people live by. Drawing on Biblical parables, Greek myths, Hindu epics, and the modern mythologies of Woody Allen and soap operas, Wendy Doniger O'Flaherty encourages us to feel anew the force of myth and tradition in our lives, and in the lives of other cultures. She shows how the stories of mythology whether of Greek gods, Chinese sages, or Polish rabbis enable all cultures to define themselves. She raises critical questions about the way we interpret mythical stories, especially the...
"Other People's Myths" celebrates the universal art of storytelling, and the rich diversity of stories that people live by. Drawing on Biblical parabl...
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123,23 zł |
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Dance of the Dolphin: Transformation and Disenchantment in the Amazonian Imagination
ISBN: 9780226761848 / Angielski / Miękka / 326 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In folktales told throughout much of the Brazilian Amazon, dolphins take human form, attend raucous dances and festivals, seduce men and women, and carry them away to a city beneath the river. They are "encantados," or Enchanted Beings, capable of provoking death or madness, but also called upon to help shamanic healers. Male dolphins accomplished dancers who appear dressed in dapper straw hats, white suits, and with shiny black shoes reportedly father numerous children. The females are said to lure away solitary fishermen. Both sinister and charming, these characters resist definition and...
In folktales told throughout much of the Brazilian Amazon, dolphins take human form, attend raucous dances and festivals, seduce men and women, and ca...
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164,30 zł |
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The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth
ISBN: 9780231111706 / Angielski / Twarda / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At this time of heightened political sensitivities, it may seem impossible to make serious comparisons among different cultures. And at a time when human difference is so relentlessly celebrated, it may even seem impossible to talk about the traditions and experiences that join us across race, religion, and nation. Wendy Doniger offers a powerful antidote to the paralysis of postcolonial intellectual life. In this spirited, enlightening book, she shows just how to make sense of, and learn from, the extraordinary diversity of cultures past and present. Tapping a wealth of traditions, from the...
At this time of heightened political sensitivities, it may seem impossible to make serious comparisons among different cultures. And at a time when hu...
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571,22 zł |
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The Implied Spider: Politics and Theology in Myth
ISBN: 9780231111713 / Angielski / Miękka / 256 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. At this time of heightened political sensitivities, it may seem impossible to make serious comparisons among different cultures. And at a time when human difference is so relentlessly celebrated, it may even seem impossible to talk about the traditions and experiences that join us across race, religion, and nation. Wendy Doniger offers a powerful antidote to the paralysis of postcolonial intellectual life. In this spirited, enlightening book, she shows just how to make sense of, and learn from, the extraordinary diversity of cultures past and present. Tapping a wealth of traditions, from the...
At this time of heightened political sensitivities, it may seem impossible to make serious comparisons among different cultures. And at a time when hu...
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136,57 zł |
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Branding TV: Principles and Practices
ISBN: 9780240807539 / Angielski / Miękka / 170 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. 'Branding TV' provides the television professionals with a succinct explanation of how the principles of brand management can be used to attract new viewers, promote audience loyalty and defend against competitive attacks.
'Branding TV' provides the television professionals with a succinct explanation of how the principles of brand management can be used to attract new v...
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213,72 zł |
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Pissing in the Snow and Other Ozark Folktales
ISBN: 9780252013645 / Angielski / Miękka / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. The well-known Ozark folklorist gathers together bawdy tales, previously considered unprintable, that provide insight into the region's rich exotic narrative tradition.
The well-known Ozark folklorist gathers together bawdy tales, previously considered unprintable, that provide insight into the region's rich exotic na...
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68,24 zł |
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Wobblies, Pile Butts, and Other Heroes: Laborlore Explorations
ISBN: 9780252019630 / Angielski / Twarda / 534 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In this culmination of his half-century of involvement with American workers and their traditions, Archie Green explores occupational expression - stories, songs, customs, beliefs, artifacts - on the job and in institutions such as trade unions. Combining ethnographic description with analysis drawn from folklore, history, literary criticism, art history, linguistics, and philosophy, Green presents ten case studies in which he reflects on single words as social texts (Wobbly, fink) and clustered words within anecdotes, tales, and ballads (John Henry, Homestead's strike songs, job yarns about...
In this culmination of his half-century of involvement with American workers and their traditions, Archie Green explores occupational expression - sto...
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190,23 zł |
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Morning Dew and Roses: Nuance, Metaphor, and Meaning in Folksongs
ISBN: 9780252021343 / Angielski / Twarda / 208 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Toelken's lively exploration of folksongs and their meanings looks closely at a number of folksong and ballad texts. He discusses riddle songs and other ambiguous folksongs, as well as the various ballad commonplaces, treating them not as a fund of mindless cliches but as a reservoir of suggestive reference. The author ranges through metaphors such as weaving, plowing, plucking flowers, and walking in the dew, showing in each case how it contributes to meaning in vernacular song. Included are comparisons to German folksongs, medieval poetry, Italian folk lyrics, and a wide range of...
Toelken's lively exploration of folksongs and their meanings looks closely at a number of folksong and ballad texts. He discusses riddle songs and oth...
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170,72 zł |
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Polish-American Folklore
ISBN: 9780252025693 / Angielski / Twarda / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Integrating vivid photographs, firsthand observations, and interviews against a rich backdrop of ethnic practices and traditions, Deborah Anders Silverman explores how Polish Americans are creatively adapting the rural peasant folklore of the old country to life in multicultural, urban America. Silverman surveys rituals of courtship, marriage, coming of age, and funerals, also noting those customs that have been rediscovered after falling into disuse. She follows the trail of folk stories and delves into folk music and dance, particularly the polka, providing a detailed discussion of texts,...
Integrating vivid photographs, firsthand observations, and interviews against a rich backdrop of ethnic practices and traditions, Deborah Anders Silve...
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131,65 zł |
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Plum and Bamboo: China's Suzhou Chantefable Tradition
ISBN: 9780252028212 / Angielski / Twarda / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. In the cities of the Yangzi River delta region of China, audiences sip tea in story houses while storytellers speak and sing stories accompanied by stringed instruments. The stories unfold week after week, usually revolving around a love intrigue. Plum and Bamboo is a thorough introduction to this enchanting oral narrative tradition that still flourishes in Shanghai and in Suzhou, an ancient city known as the city of gardens. Storytelling in China was once a major art form that rivaled opera and other performance genres. The Suzhou chantefable of today is a rich, local tradition and one of...
In the cities of the Yangzi River delta region of China, audiences sip tea in story houses while storytellers speak and sing stories accompanied by st...
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199,99 zł |
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The Complete Fables of Jean de la Fontaine
ISBN: 9780252031441 / Angielski / Twarda / 504 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Inspired new translations of the work of one of the world's greatest fabulists
Told in an elegant style, Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-95) charming animal fables depict sly foxes and scheming cats, vain birds and greedy wolves, all of which subtly express his penetrating insights into French society and the beasts found in all of us. Norman R. Shapiro has been translating La Fontaine's fables for over twenty years, capturing the original work's lively mix of plain and archaic language. This newly complete translation is destined to set the English standard for this work. Inspired new translations of the work of one of the world's greatest fabulists
Told in an elegant style, Jean de la Fontaine's (1621-95) charming an... |
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507,29 zł |
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Feminist Messages: Coding in Women's Folk Culture
ISBN: 9780252062674 / Angielski / Miękka / 328 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Explores the nature and complexity of women's coded acts. The volume focuses chiefly on North America and on women's folklore in areas ranging from mothering, housework, crafts and healing to music, ballads, and storytelling.
Explores the nature and complexity of women's coded acts. The volume focuses chiefly on North America and on women's folklore in areas ranging from mo...
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92,63 zł |
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Feminist Theory and the Study of Folklore
ISBN: 9780252063138 / Angielski / Miękka / 432 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Taking a performance-centered perspective on folklore, this book challenges patriarchal assumptions of the past and rethinks old topics from a feminist perspective while opening fresh areas of research. It covers girls' games, political cartoons, quilting, Pentecostal preachers, daily housework, Egyptian goddesses, tall tales, and birth.
Taking a performance-centered perspective on folklore, this book challenges patriarchal assumptions of the past and rethinks old topics from a feminis...
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107,26 zł |
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George Magoon and the Down East Game War: History, Folklore, and the Law
ISBN: 9780252063305 / Angielski / Miękka / 352 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. |
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117,02 zł |
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The Storytellers Journey: An American Revival
ISBN: 9780252067464 / Angielski / Miękka / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 5-8 dni roboczych. Providing an examination of the contemporary search for myth, this book explores the social and psychological roots of the storytelling revival and the ever-resurgent power of the storyteller. Drawing on interviews with storytellers around the country, it paints the revival as part of a larger process of cultural revitalization.
Providing an examination of the contemporary search for myth, this book explores the social and psychological roots of the storytelling revival and th...
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97,50 zł |
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