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Women and Weasels Mythologies of Birth in Ancient Greece and Rome
ISBN: HB: 9780226044743, University of Chicago Press, September 2013
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 28 halftones
If you told a woman her sex had a shared, long-lived history with weasels, she might deck you. But those familiar with mythology know better: that the connection between women and weasels is an ancient and favorable one, based in the Greek myth of a...
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£56,00
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Witchcraft, Intimacy, and Trust Africa in Comparison
ISBN: PB: 9780226047614, ISBN: HB: 9780226047584, University of Chicago Press, August 2013
328 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm
In Dante's "Inferno", the lowest circle of Hell is reserved for traitors, those who betrayed their closest companions. In a wide range of literatures and mythologies such intimate aggression is a source of ultimate terror, and in "Witchcraft, Intimac...
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£22,00
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£61,00
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Cooking of History How Not to Study Afro-Cuban Religion
ISBN: PB: 9780226019567, ISBN: HB: 9780226019420, University of Chicago Press, June 2013
368 pp., 23x15 cm
Over a lifetime of studying Cuban Santeria and other religions related to Orisha worship – a practice also found among the Yoruba in West Africa – Stephan Palmie has grown progressively uneasy with the assumptions inherent in the very term Afro-Cuban...
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£22,50
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£73,00
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Solomon's Secret Arts The Occult in the Age of Enlightenment
ISBN: HB: 9780300123586, Yale University Press, April 2013
412 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 24 black&white illus.
The late seventeenth and eighteenth centuries are known as the Age of Enlightenment, a time of science and reason. But in this illuminating book, Paul Monod reveals the surprising extent to which Newton, Boyle, Locke, and other giants of rational tho...
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£27,50
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From The Holy Land to Graceland Sacred People, Places and Things in Our Lives
ISBN: PB: 9781933253725, University of Chicago Press, American Alliance of Museums Press, February 2013
202 pp., 25.4x17.8 cm, 130 colour illus.
According to medievalist Gary Vikan, Graceland is much more than a wildly popular tourist destination associated with a famous entertainer, and Elvis Presley is much more than the King of Rock 'n' Roll. In this fascinating new book, Vikan posits that...
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£24,50
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