Search Results - "Myth"

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    The accidental slaveowner revisiting a myth of race and finding an American family / by Auslander, Mark

    Published 2011
    Table of Contents: “…The myth of Kitty -- Distant kin : slavery and cultural intimacy in a Georgia community -- "The tenderest solicitude for her welfare" : founding texts of the Andrew-Kitty narrative -- "As free as I am" : retelling the narrative -- "The other side of paradise" : mythos and memory in the cemetery -- "The most interesting building in Georgia" : the strange career of Kitty's cottage -- Enigmas of kinship : Miss Kitty and her family -- "Out of the shadows" : the Andrew family slaves -- Saying something now.…”
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    Cannibal talk the man-eating myth and human sacrifice in the South Seas / by Obeyesekere, Gananath

    Published 2005
    Table 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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    Thespis : ritual, myth and drama in the ancient near East. / by Gaster, Theodor H.

    Published 1961
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    From metaphysics to midrash myth, history, and the interpretation of Scripture in Lurianic Kabbala / by Magid, Shaul, 1958-

    Published 2008
    Table of Contents: “…Kabbala, new historicism, and the question of boundaries -- The Lurianic myth: a playbill -- Genesis: "And Adam's sin was (very) great": original sin in Lurianic exegesis -- Exodus: The "other" Israel: the ʻerev rav (mixed multitude) as conversos -- Leviticus: The sin of becoming a woman: male homosexuality and the castration complex -- Numbers: Balaam, Moses, and the prophecy of the "other": a Lurianic vision for the erasure of difference -- Deuteronomy: the human and/as God: divine incarnation and the "image of God".…”
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