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Material Acts in Everyday Hindu Worlds / by Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Agency of ornaments : identity, protection, and auspiciousness -- Saris and turmeric : performativity of the material guise -- Material abundance and material excess : creating and serving two goddesses -- Expanding shrines, changing architecture : from protector to protected goddesses -- Standing in cement : Ravana on the Chhattisgarhi Plains -- Afterword: Returning to material acts.…”
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Gods and heroes from Viking mythology / by Branston, Brian, 1914-

Gods and heroes from Viking mythology / by Branston, Brian, 1914-

Fertile disorder spirit possession and its provocation of the modern / by Ram, Kalpana

Table of Contents: “…Visible and invisible bodies : rural women and state intellectuals -- Minor practices -- Possession and the bride : emotions, the elusive phantom of social theory -- The abject body of infertility -- Learning possession, becoming healer -- Performativity in the court of the goddess -- The nature of the complaint -- Possession and social theory -- Possession and emancipatory politics.…”
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Fertile disorder spirit possession and its provocation of the modern / by Ram, Kalpana

Table of Contents: “…Visible and invisible bodies : rural women and state intellectuals -- Minor practices -- Possession and the bride : emotions, the elusive phantom of social theory -- The abject body of infertility -- Learning possession, becoming healer -- Performativity in the court of the goddess -- The nature of the complaint -- Possession and social theory -- Possession and emancipatory politics.…”
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The vanishing Hebrew harlot the adventures of the Hebrew stem ZNH / by Riegner, Irene E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Akkadian connection -- Ha̮rīmtu, qadis̆tu : prostitutes, goddesses, and taverns -- The central Semitic tie : a survey of Ugaritic -- The central Semitic link : a survey of Aramaic -- Sacrifices and deities -- Of deities, assimilation, and intermarriage -- Hosea and non-Yahwist praxis -- Gomer's "crime" -- Hosea : prioests, purity, and horrible things -- Jeremiah versus the world -- Leviticus redux -- Prostitution, promiscuity, and innkeepers -- Summary and conclusions.…”
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The vanishing Hebrew harlot the adventures of the Hebrew stem ZNH / by Riegner, Irene E.

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- The Akkadian connection -- Ha̮rīmtu, qadis̆tu : prostitutes, goddesses, and taverns -- The central Semitic tie : a survey of Ugaritic -- The central Semitic link : a survey of Aramaic -- Sacrifices and deities -- Of deities, assimilation, and intermarriage -- Hosea and non-Yahwist praxis -- Gomer's "crime" -- Hosea : prioests, purity, and horrible things -- Jeremiah versus the world -- Leviticus redux -- Prostitution, promiscuity, and innkeepers -- Summary and conclusions.…”
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Interpreting ancient figurines context, comparison, and prehistoric art / by Lesure, Richard G.

Table of Contents: “…Mesoamerican figurines and the contextualist appeal to universal truths; 6. Figurines, goddesses, and the texture of long-term structures in the Near East; 7. …”
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Remaking Chinese cinema through the prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hollywood / by Wang, Yiman, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The goddess : tracking the "unknown woman" from Hollywood through Shanghai to Hong Kong -- Family resemblance, class conflicts : re-version of the sisterhood singsong drama -- The love parade goes on : western-costume Cantonese opera film and the foreignizing remake -- Mr. …”
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Interpreting ancient figurines context, comparison, and prehistoric art / by Lesure, Richard G.

Table of Contents: “…Mesoamerican figurines and the contextualist appeal to universal truths; 6. Figurines, goddesses, and the texture of long-term structures in the Near East; 7. …”
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Remaking Chinese cinema through the prism of Shanghai, Hong Kong, and Hollywood / by Wang, Yiman, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…The goddess : tracking the "unknown woman" from Hollywood through Shanghai to Hong Kong -- Family resemblance, class conflicts : re-version of the sisterhood singsong drama -- The love parade goes on : western-costume Cantonese opera film and the foreignizing remake -- Mr. …”
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Black women in sequence : re-inking comics, graphic novels, and anime / by Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Catwoman, blackness, and postracialism -- African goddesses, mixed-race wonders, and baadasssss women: black women as "signs" of Africa in US comics -- Anime dreams for African girls: Nadia: the secret of blue water -- Where I'm coming from: black female artists and postmodern comix -- Conclusion: Comic book divas and the making of sequential subjects.…”
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Black women in sequence : re-inking comics, graphic novels, and anime / by Whaley, Deborah Elizabeth

Table of Contents: “…Catwoman, blackness, and postracialism -- African goddesses, mixed-race wonders, and baadasssss women: black women as "signs" of Africa in US comics -- Anime dreams for African girls: Nadia: the secret of blue water -- Where I'm coming from: black female artists and postmodern comix -- Conclusion: Comic book divas and the making of sequential subjects.…”
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Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India / by Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Gregory Nagy -- Introduction : region, repertoire, and genre -- Soaking the goddess, celebrating friendship : Bhojalī -- Brave daughters, bound kings : a female tradition of reversal : Ḍālkhāī -- Land of wealth, land of famine : the "Parrot dance" in ritual and narrative : Suā Nāc -- Joining verse to verse : professional storytelling and individual creativity : Kathānī Kūhā -- "This is our story" : a Chhattisgarhi epic : Candainī -- Paṇḍvānī heroines, Chhattisgarhi daughters : Paṇḍvānī -- Conclusion: shifting boundaries of genre and community -- The Song of Subanbali -- Kathānī Kūhā : of friendship, love, and memory -- Sample transcriptions of performance texts.…”
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Gender and Genre in the Folklore of Middle India / by Flueckiger, Joyce Burkhalter

Table of Contents: “…Foreword / by Gregory Nagy -- Introduction : region, repertoire, and genre -- Soaking the goddess, celebrating friendship : Bhojalī -- Brave daughters, bound kings : a female tradition of reversal : Ḍālkhāī -- Land of wealth, land of famine : the "Parrot dance" in ritual and narrative : Suā Nāc -- Joining verse to verse : professional storytelling and individual creativity : Kathānī Kūhā -- "This is our story" : a Chhattisgarhi epic : Candainī -- Paṇḍvānī heroines, Chhattisgarhi daughters : Paṇḍvānī -- Conclusion: shifting boundaries of genre and community -- The Song of Subanbali -- Kathānī Kūhā : of friendship, love, and memory -- Sample transcriptions of performance texts.…”
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Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman & early Christian antiquity seeing the gods /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mapping out communitas : performances of theōria in their sacred and political context / Barbara Kowalzig -- Hiketai and theōroi at Epidauros / Fred Naiden -- Pilgrimage to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi : patterns of public and private consultation / Michael Arnush -- "Pilgrimage" and Greek religion : sacred and secular in the pagan polis / Scott Scullion -- Down-stream to the cat-goddess : Herodotus on Egyptian pilgrimage / Ian Rutherford -- Philosopher at the festival : Plato's transformation of traditional theōria / Andrea Wilson Nightingale -- Body in space : visual dynamics in Graeco-Roman healing pilgrimage / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis -- Mucianus and a touch of the miraculous : pilgrimage and tourism in Roman Asia Minor / George Williamson -- Pilgrimage as elite habitus : educated pilgrims in sacred landscape during the Second Sophistic / Marco Galli -- Construction of religious space in Pausanias / William Hutton -- Journey to the end of the world / Andrew Fear -- Pilgrims and ethnographers : in search of the Syrian goddess / J.L. …”
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Pilgrimage in Graeco-Roman & early Christian antiquity seeing the gods /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Mapping out communitas : performances of theōria in their sacred and political context / Barbara Kowalzig -- Hiketai and theōroi at Epidauros / Fred Naiden -- Pilgrimage to the Oracle of Apollo at Delphi : patterns of public and private consultation / Michael Arnush -- "Pilgrimage" and Greek religion : sacred and secular in the pagan polis / Scott Scullion -- Down-stream to the cat-goddess : Herodotus on Egyptian pilgrimage / Ian Rutherford -- Philosopher at the festival : Plato's transformation of traditional theōria / Andrea Wilson Nightingale -- Body in space : visual dynamics in Graeco-Roman healing pilgrimage / Alexia Petsalis-Diomidis -- Mucianus and a touch of the miraculous : pilgrimage and tourism in Roman Asia Minor / George Williamson -- Pilgrimage as elite habitus : educated pilgrims in sacred landscape during the Second Sophistic / Marco Galli -- Construction of religious space in Pausanias / William Hutton -- Journey to the end of the world / Andrew Fear -- Pilgrims and ethnographers : in search of the Syrian goddess / J.L. …”
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Mother and myth in Spanish novels rewriting the maternal archetype / by Schumm, Sandra J., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: recovering the matriarchal goddess of wisdom -- Reparation to the ghostly mother: Carme Riera's La mitad del alma -- Revaluing the mother: Luc�ia Etxebarria's Un milagro en equilibrio -- Forgiving medusa: Rosa Montero's El coraz�on del t�artaro -- Ghosts and lovers: writing as antidote in Mar�ia De La Pau Janer's Las mujeres que hay en m�i -- Activating intuitive communication: Cristina Cerezales' De oca a oca -- Reaching beyond mothers and daughters: Soledad Pu�ertolas' Historia de un abrigo -- Conclusion: societal transformations.…”
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Mother and myth in Spanish novels rewriting the maternal archetype / by Schumm, Sandra J., 1947-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: recovering the matriarchal goddess of wisdom -- Reparation to the ghostly mother: Carme Riera's La mitad del alma -- Revaluing the mother: Luc�ia Etxebarria's Un milagro en equilibrio -- Forgiving medusa: Rosa Montero's El coraz�on del t�artaro -- Ghosts and lovers: writing as antidote in Mar�ia De La Pau Janer's Las mujeres que hay en m�i -- Activating intuitive communication: Cristina Cerezales' De oca a oca -- Reaching beyond mothers and daughters: Soledad Pu�ertolas' Historia de un abrigo -- Conclusion: societal transformations.…”
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Sameness and repetition in contemporary media culture / by Tosca, Susana

Table of Contents: “…Learning to love your stone: The aesthetics and experience of computer games -- Chapter 3. Sing, goddess, of the anger of achilles: Formal repetition in storytelling -- Chapter 4. …”
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