The Devil in the Ark (AaTh 825)
Author | : Francis Lee Utley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 1961 |
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Author | : Francis Lee Utley |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 463 |
Release | : 1961 |
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Author | : Alan Dundes |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 468 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 9780520063532 |
Author | : Mark Edward Lewis |
Publisher | : State University of New York Press |
Total Pages | : 258 |
Release | : 2012-02-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0791482227 |
Early Chinese ideas about the construction of an ordered human space received narrative form in a set of stories dealing with the rescue of the world and its inhabitants from a universal flood. This book demonstrates how early Chinese stories of the re-creation of the world from a watery chaos provided principles underlying such fundamental units as the state, lineage, the married couple, and even the human body. These myths also supplied a charter for the major political and social institutions of Warring States (481–221 BC) and early imperial (220 BC–AD 220) China. In some versions of the tales, the flood was triggered by rebellion, while other versions linked the taming of the flood with the creation of the institution of a lineage, and still others linked the taming to the process in which the divided principles of the masculine and the feminine were joined in the married couple to produce an ordered household. While availing themselves of earlier stories and of central religious rituals of the period, these myths transformed earlier divinities or animal spirits into rulers or ministers and provided both etiologies and legitimation for the emerging political and social institutions that culminated in the creation of a unitary empire.
Author | : Shelley Ingram |
Publisher | : Univ. Press of Mississippi |
Total Pages | : 203 |
Release | : 2023-05-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1496844378 |
Contributions by Emma Frances Bloomfield, Sheila Bock, Kristen Bradley, Hannah Chapple, James Deutsch, Máirt Hanley, Christine Hoffmann, Kate Parker Horigan, Shelley Ingram, John Laudun, Jordan Lovejoy, Lena Marander-Eklund, Jennifer Morrison, Willow G. Mullins, Anne Pryor, Todd Richardson, and Claire Schmidt The weather governs our lives. It fills gaps in conversations, determines our dress, and influences our architecture. No matter how much our lives may have moved indoors, no matter how much we may rely on technology, we still monitor the weather. Wait Five Minutes: Weatherlore in the Twenty-First Century draws from folkloric, literary, and scientific theory to offer up new ways of thinking about this most ancient of phenomena. Weatherlore is a concept that describes the folk beliefs and traditions about the weather that are passed down casually among groups of people. Weatherlore can be predictive, such as the belief that more black than brown fuzz on a woolly bear caterpillar signals a harsh winter. It can be the familiar commentary that eases daily social interactions, such as asking, “Is it hot (or cold) enough for you?” Other times, it is simply ubiquitous: “If you don’t like the weather, wait five minutes and it will change.” From detailing personal experiences at picnics and suburban lawns to critically analyzing storm stories, novels, and flood legends, contributors offer engaging multidisciplinary perspectives on weatherlore. As we move further into the twenty-first century, an increasing awareness of climate change and its impacts on daily life calls for a folkloristic reckoning with the weather and a rising need to examine vernacular understandings of weather and climate. Weatherlore helps us understand and shape global political conversations about climate change and biopolitics at the same time that it influences individual, group, and regional lives and identities. We use weather, and thus its folklore, to make meaning of ourselves, our groups, and, quite literally, our world.
Author | : Timothy S. Jones |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 344 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
This collection of essays examines medieval and early modern perceptions of the marvelous and the monstrous. The essays investigate the nature of those phenomena and how people of these periods experienced them and how they recreated that experience for others. The essays trace the development of representations of marvels and explicate individual incarnations of monster and miracles. They analyze the importance of marvelous difference in defining ethnic, racial, religious, class, and gender identities to ask what legacy the medieval confrontations with marvels left for the modern world. These excellent essays look at issues that have long perplexed readers, such as the meaning of marvels, and whether we can read them in earnest or whether they can be appreciated only as play. The different authors bring their expertise to the fore to discuss the development of thoughts on marvels from the classical tradition through the concept's development in the medieval and early modern tradition. This collection is essential reading for any analysis of the marvelous in these periods and the state of scholarship surrounding them.
Author | : Gunnar Jarring |
Publisher | : Cwk Gleerup |
Total Pages | : 174 |
Release | : 1980 |
Genre | : Uighur language |
ISBN | : 9789140047458 |
Author | : Thomas J. Sienkewicz |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 488 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Fiction |
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A compact reference source that offers general readers bibliographic access to significant English-language translations, retellings, and summaries of myths from cultures around the world. While Greek, Roman, Norse, and Arthurian myths are the best known, this bibliography also surveys the less familiar materials containing African, Asian, Oceanian, and American myths. This easy-to-use reference arranges entries geographically and also includes author, illustrator/photographer, and subject indexes.
Author | : |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 788 |
Release | : 1966 |
Genre | : Folklore |
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Author | : Ehsan Yar-Shater |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 388 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Iran |
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Author | : Leeds Philosophical and Literary Society |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 412 |
Release | : 1982 |
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