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Cannibal talk the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas /
Published 2005Table of Contents: “…Introduction: Anthropology and the maneating myth -- "British cannibals" : dialogical misunderstandings in the South Seas -- Concerning violence : a backward journey into Maori anthropophagy -- Savage indignation : cannibalism and the parodic -- The later fate of heads : cannibalism, decapitation, and capitalism -- Cannibal feasts in nineteenth century Fiji : seamen's yarns and the ethnographic imagination -- Narratives of the self : Chevalier Peter Dillon's cannibal adventures -- On quartering and cannibalism and the discourses of savagism -- Conclusion.…”
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The Basque country a cultural history /
Published 2008Table of Contents: “…: the transformation of a tough city -- From the music of labour, to music as a labour of love -- Obaba in Asteasu : the Basque village as a literary universe -- Serious fun : fiestas in Laguardia -- Don't mention the war : the dark side of Basque and Spanish politics -- Bay of Biscay : whales, Belle Epoque, decapitated geese, sexual politics -- Navaree, heartland or hinterland? …”
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Cultural Reflections of Medusa The Shadow in the Glass.
Published 2019Table of Contents: “…Cover; Half Title; Series Information; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of contents; Introduction; Bibliography; Part I The myth; 1 The modern Medusa; Bibliography; 2 The historical and mythical origins of Medusa; Gaia the primordial goddess; The Medusa head in Greek myth; 3 Symbolism in the Medusa myth: The decapitated head of Medusa; The snake archetype; The rite of passage; Philosophical influences on the Symbolist Movement; Bibliography; Part II Symbolist interpretations of Medusa; 4 Jean Delville and The Idol of Perversity; Bibliography…”
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From chanson de geste to epic chronicle : medieval Occitan poetry of war /
Published 2020Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half Title -- Series -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Foreword -- List of Original Essays -- Part I Women and Saracens in the Occitan chansons de geste -- 1 Silhouettes of women in the Occitan and Old French Roland texts -- 2 Belauda's garden -- 3 Aude, Iphigenia, Polyxena -- 4 So dis la donna: 'Oy, bel sira Rollan, mos maritz es en malaür lo gran': the Saracens and the Saracen woman in Rollan a Saragossa -- 5 The Saracen: from the depths of Hell to the gates of salvation -- 6 Between Saracens and Christians, or the decapitated horse…”
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Arteletra : The Sixties in Latin America and the Politics of Going Unnoticed /
Published 2021Table of Contents: “…Chapter Three On Unattended Details -- Amid Heaps of Scrap Metal -- A Weaponized Scorpion -- PART TWO The Politics of Going Unnoticed -- Chapter Four A Double Negative in Cuba -- Lunes and the Cuban Revolution -- An Unremarkable Intellectual -- Casey's Dissent -- Chapter Five An Errant Allegory in Argentina -- Intruders in Argentine Politics -- Disagreeing with Plato -- Konsideransky's Ambush -- Chapter Six A Nude Woman in Uruguay -- The Uruguayan Exception -- Linke's Flight and Decapitation -- First Encounter: Nataniel's Chains -- Second Encounter: The People's Terror…”
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