Ritual of the Savage
Author | : Jed McGowan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Zines |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Jed McGowan |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 37 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Zines |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jay Strongman |
Publisher | : Hungry Eye Books |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 2015-12-01 |
Genre | : Fiction |
ISBN | : 9780993186615 |
It's the long, hot summer of 1958, and on the surface, everything is swinging in Los Angeles, the City of Angels. But for struggling private eye Johnny Davis, behind the ring-a-ding-ding veneer of sharp suits, bottle blondes and Tiki bars lies something far more unsettling and sinister. What starts out as just another case quickly turns into a nightmare of mind-altering drugs, deception, lust and murder. And, in an era when the old certainties are being challenged, the biggest betrayal of all is yet to come as Johnny begins to question his own loyalties.
Author | : Walter Burkert |
Publisher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 140 |
Release | : 2001-04 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226080857 |
We often think of classical Greek society as a model of rationality and order. Yet as Walter Burkert demonstrates in these influential essays on the history of Greek religion, there were archaic, savage forces surging beneath the outwardly calm face of classical Greece, whose potentially violent and destructive energies, Burkert argues, were harnessed to constructive ends through the interlinked uses of myth and ritual. For example, in a much-cited essay on the Athenian religious festival of the Arrephoria, Burkert uncovers deep connections between this strange nocturnal ritual, in which two virgin girls carried sacred offerings into a cave and later returned with something given to them there, and tribal puberty initiations by linking the festival with the myth of the daughters of Kekrops. Other chapters explore the origins of tragedy in blood sacrifice; the role of myth in the ritual of the new fire on Lemnos; the ties between violence, the Athenian courts, and the annual purification of the divine image; and how failed political propaganda entered the realm of myth at the time of the Persian Wars.
Author | : Andrew Lang |
Publisher | : Ebookslib |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1913 |
Genre | : Reference |
ISBN | : |
When this book first appeared (1886), the philological school of interpretation of religion and myth, being then still powerful in England, was criticised and opposed by the author. In Science, as on the Turkish throne of old, Amurath to Amurath succeeds; the philological theories of religion and myth have now yielded to anthropological methods. The centre of the anthropological position was the ghost theory of Mr
Author | : Martha C. Carpentier |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 225 |
Release | : 2013-12-19 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1134389507 |
First Published in 1998. Volume 12 in the Library of Anthropology series. This text traces the influence of Jane Ellen Harrison, a brilliant classicist and one of the 'Cambridge Anthropologists' on Jams Joyce, T.S. Eliot and Virginia Woolf. Decade of critical over-emphasis on Sir James Frazer's influence on modernism have obscured the more important contributions of Harrison, who explored the chthonic Greek matriarchal cults prior to patriarchal Olympianism and originated the 'ritual theory', finding the origins of Greek drama- and ultimately of all art, in religious ritual. Harrison's images of matriarchal divinity and the feminist principles they embodied inspired these modernist writers to envision the young artist reborn as creator through symbolic union with the semiotic body.
Author | : Andrew Lang |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 1906 |
Genre | : Myth |
ISBN | : |
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 | : Andrew Lang |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 313 |
Release | : 2014-04-11 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 1609776704 |
Andrew Lang (1844-1912) was a prolific Scots man of letters, a poet, novelist, literary critic and contributor to anthropology. He now is best known as the collector of folk and fairy tales. He was educated at the Edinburgh Academy, St Andrews University and at Balliol College, Oxford. As a journalist, poet, critic and historian, he soon made a reputation as one of the ablest and most versatile writers of the day. Lang was one of the founders of the study of "Psychical Research," and his other writings on anthropology include The Book of Dreams and Ghosts (1897), Magic and Religion (1901) and The Secret of the Totem (1905). He was a Homeric scholar of conservative views. Other works include Homer and the Epic (1893); a prose translation of The Homeric Hymns (1899), with literary and mythological essays in which he draws parallels between Greek myths and other mythologies; and Homer and his Age (1906). He also wrote Ballades in Blue China (1880) and Rhymes la Mode (1884).
Author | : Rachel O. Moore |
Publisher | : Duke University Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 2000 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 9780822323884 |
An ambitious and original work which uses early film theory, anthropological insights, and avant--garde film to explore the relation of cinema to ritual healing.
Author | : Erik W. Davis |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2015-12-08 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0231540663 |
Drawing on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Cambodia, Erik W. Davis radically reorients approaches toward the nature of Southeast Asian Buddhism's interactions with local religious practice and, by extension, reorients our understanding of Buddhism itself. Through a vivid study of contemporary Cambodian Buddhist funeral rites, he reveals the powerfully integrative role monks play as they care for the dead and negotiate the interplay of non-Buddhist spirits and formal Buddhist customs. Buddhist monks perform funeral rituals rooted in the embodied practices of Khmer rice farmers and the social hierarchies of Khmer culture. The monks' realization of death underwrites key components of the Cambodian social imagination: the distinction between wild death and celibate life, the forest and the field, and moral and immoral forms of power. By connecting the performative aspects of Buddhist death rituals to Cambodian history and everyday life, Davis undermines the theory that Buddhism and rural belief systems necessarily oppose each other. Instead, he shows Cambodian Buddhism to be a robust tradition with ethical and popular components extending throughout Khmer society.