Fertility : Images and Icons, Rites and Rituals
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Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fertility, Human, in art |
ISBN | : 9780952045731 |
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Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 30 |
Release | : 1994 |
Genre | : Fertility, Human, in art |
ISBN | : 9780952045731 |
Author | : Mircea Eliade |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1991-06-25 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : 9780691020686 |
Mircea Eliade--one of the most renowned expositors of the psychology of religion, mythology, and magic--shows that myth and symbol constitute a mode of thought that not only came before that of discursive and logical reasoning, but is still an essential function of human consciousness. He describes and analyzes some of the most powerful and ubiquitous symbols that have ruled the mythological thinking of East and West in many times and at many levels of cultural development.
Author | : Dean Miller |
Publisher | : Cavendish Square Publishing, LLC |
Total Pages | : 146 |
Release | : 2014-01-01 |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : 1627125698 |
This comprehensive atlas explores the varied ritual practices and religious beliefs in the ancient cultural region thought to be the cradle of civilization. The captivating history of Ancient Egypt, Mesopotamia, and the area known as the Fertile Crescent, unfolds through a pictorial and illustrated journey. Through a robust glossary, sidebars, and thematic introductions the social studies content of this fascinating subject becomes easily digestible, for even the most reluctant reader, while the further reading section inspires future research.
Author | : Rosaleen Howard-Malverde |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 270 |
Release | : 1997-04-24 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 0195355180 |
A major concern in current anthropological thinking is that the method of recording or translating into writing a society's cultural expressions--dance, rituals, pottery, the social use of space, et al--cannot help but fundamentally alter the meaning of the living words and deeds of the culture in question. Consequently, recent researchers have developed more dialogic methods for collecting, interpreting, and presenting data. These new techniques have yielded much success for anthropologists working in Latin America, especially in their efforts to understand how economically, politically, and socially subordinated groups use culture and language to resist the dominant national culture and to assert a distinct historical identity. This collection addresses these issues of "texts" and textuality as it explores various Latin American languages and cultures.
Author | : Russell E. Martin |
Publisher | : Cornell University Press |
Total Pages | : 298 |
Release | : 2021-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1501754858 |
The Tsar's Happy Occasion shows how the vast, ornate affairs that were royal weddings in early modern Russia were choreographed to broadcast powerful images of monarchy and dynasty. Processions and speeches emphasized dynastic continuity and legitimacy. Fertility rites blended Christian and pre-Christian symbols to assure the birth of heirs. Gift exchanges created and affirmed social solidarity among the elite. The bride performed rituals that integrated herself and her family into the inner circle of the court. Using an array of archival sources, Russell E. Martin demonstrates how royal weddings reflected and shaped court politics during a time of dramatic cultural and dynastic change. As Martin shows, the rites of passage in these ceremonies were dazzling displays of monarchical power unlike any other ritual at the Muscovite court. And as dynasties came and went and the political culture evolved, so too did wedding rituals. Martin relates how Peter the Great first mocked, then remade wedding rituals to symbolize and empower his efforts to westernize Russia. After Peter, the two branches of the Romanov dynasty used weddings to solidify their claims to the throne. The Tsar's Happy Occasion offers a sweeping, yet penetrating cultural history of the power of rituals and the rituals of power in early modern Russia.
Author | : Catherine Johns |
Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
Total Pages | : 198 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 9780415925679 |
First published in 2000. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author | : Joan V. O'Brien |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 274 |
Release | : 1993 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9780847678082 |
'...an exciting and meticulously detailed exploration of this most enigmatic of Olympian goddesses'-Richard Martin, Princeton University
Author | : Jack Tresidder |
Publisher | : Chronicle Books |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 2004-02 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780811842822 |
Pleasingly chunky and vibrantly colorful, this pocket-sized compendium of common imagery in art, religion, and literature covers iconography from around the world.
Author | : Catherine Bell |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 369 |
Release | : 2009-12-29 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0199739471 |
From handshakes and toasts to chant and genuflection, ritual pervades our social interactions and religious practices. Still, few of us could identify all of our daily and festal ritual behaviors, much less explain them to an outsider. Similarly, because of the variety of activities that qualify as ritual and their many contradictory yet, in many ways, equally legitimate interpretations, ritual seems to elude any systematic historical and comparative scrutiny. In this book, Catherine Bell offers a practical introduction to ritual practice and its study; she surveys the most influential theories of religion and ritual, the major categories of ritual activity, and the key debates that have shaped our understanding of ritualism. Bell refuses to nail down ritual with any one definition or understanding. Instead, her purpose is to reveal how definitions emerge and evolve and to help us become more familiar with the interplay of tradition, exigency, and self-expression that goes into constructing this complex social medium.
Author | : Peter T. Markman |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 304 |
Release | : 1989-01-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520064188 |
Drawing on secondary works in archaeology, art history, folklore, ethnohistory, ethnography, and literature, the authors maintain that the mask is the central metaphor for the Mesoamerican concept of spiritual reality. Covers the long history of the use of the ritual mask by the peoples who created and developed the mythological tradition of Mesoamerica. Chapters: (1) the metaphor of the mask in Pre-Columbian Mesoamerica: the mask as the God, in ritual, and as metaphor; (II) metaphoric reflections of the cosmic order; and (III) the metaphor of the mask after the conquest: syncretism; the Pre-Columbian survivals; the syncretic compromise; and today's masks. Over 100 color and black-&-white photos.