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Sea Woman Sedna in Inuit Shamanism and Art in the Eastern Arctic

Laugrand Frederic, Oosten Jarich

ISBN: PB: 9781602230118, ISBN: HB: 9781602230262, University of Chicago Press, University of Alaska Press, February 2010
160 pp., 25.5x20 cm, 200 colour illus.

This study offers an in-depth examination of the role of shamanism in modern Inuit art and culture. Inuit shamans derived their healing skills and power over natural elements from their ability to communicate with supernatural beings, such as Sedna t...

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Chicago Guide to Collaborative Ethnography

Lassiter Luke Eric

ISBN: PB: 9780226468907, ISBN: HB: 9780226468891, University of Chicago Press, September 2005
216 pp., 23x15 cm

Collaboration between ethnographers and subjects has long been a product of the close, intimate relationships that define ethnographic research. But increasingly, collaboration is no longer viewed as merely a consequence of fieldwork; instead collabo...

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Gypsy World The Silence of the Living and the Voices of the Dead

Williams Patrick

ISBN: PB: 9780226899299, ISBN: HB: 9780226899282, University of Chicago Press, June 2003
115 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 22 halftones

For many of us, one of the most important ways of coping with the death of a close relative is talking about them, telling all who will listen what they meant to us. Yet the Gypsies of central France, the Manus, not only do not speak of their dead, t...

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Anthropology

Kant, Herder, and the Birth of Anthropology

Zammito John H.

ISBN: PB: 9780226978598, ISBN: HB: 9780226978581, University of Chicago Press, January 2002
576 pp., 22.9x15.2 cm, 3 halftones

If Kant had never made the "critical turn" of 1773, would he be worth more than a paragraph in the history of philosophy? Most scholars think not. But in this pioneering book, John H. Zammito challenges that view by revealing a precritical Kant who w...

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Jealous Potter

Levi-Strauss Claude

ISBN: PB: 9780226474823, ISBN: HB: 9780226474809, University of Chicago Press, December 1996
260 pp., 23x15 cm, 1 colour plate, 11 halftones

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...

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Story of Lynx

Levi-Strauss Claude

ISBN: PB: 9780226474724, ISBN: HB: 9780226474717, University of Chicago Press, December 1996
294 pp., 23x15 cm, 4 halftones, 3 maps, 20 tables

"In olden days, in a village peopled by animal creatures, lived Wild Cat (another name for Lynx). He was old and mangy, and he was constantly scratching himself with his cane. From time to time, a young girl who lived in the same cabin would grab the...

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Asia

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Asian Mythologies

ISBN: PB: 9780226064567, University of Chicago Press, May 1993
400 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, halftones throughout

These 130 articles explore mythologies in societies from India to Japan. Among the many topics are Buddhist and Hindu symbolic systems, myth in pre-Islamic Iran, Indonesian rites of passage, Chinese cosmology and demons, and Japanese conceptions of t...

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Europe

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Roman and European Mythologies

ISBN: PB: 9780226064550, University of Chicago Press, November 1992
342 pp., 27.9x21.6 cm, halftones throughout

This volume begins with Roman myths and traces their influence in early Christian and later European literature. Ninety-five entries by leading scholars cover subjects such as sacrificial cults and rites in pre-Roman Italy, Roman religion and its ori...

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Naked Man Mythologiques, Volume 4

Levi-Strauss Claude

ISBN: PB: 9780226474960, University of Chicago Press, November 1990
746 pp., 23x15 cm, 39 figures

Table of Symbols Prologue Part One: Family Secrets 1. The Hidden Child 2. Foolish Women and Wise Virgins Part Two: Echo Effects Part Three: Scenes from Private Life 1. The Lewd Grandmother 2. In Death as in Life 3".... These Twin Mirrors" Part Fo...

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Origin of Table Manners Mythologiques, Volume 3

Levi-Strauss Claude

ISBN: PB: 9780226474939, University of Chicago Press, November 1990
552 pp., 23x15 cm, 8 maps and line drawings

Table of Symbols Foreword Part One: The Mystery of the Woman Cut Into Pieces 1. At the Scene of the Crime 2. A Clinging Half Part Two: From Myth to Novel 1. The Days and the Seasons 2. The Daily Round Part Three: The Canoe Journey of the Moon and...

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