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Kaibeto Memories
A trader's daughter remembers growing up on the Navajo Reservation at Kaibeto Trading Post in remote northern Arizona 1936-1960€ 16,50 -
Voyage d'Horace Vernet en Orient, rédigé par M. Goupil Fesquet
€ 38,95 -
Voyage d'Horace Vernet en Orient, rédigé par M. Goupil Fesquet
€ 27,50 -
More Ghost Stories of Nova Scotia
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The Cuisine of Sacrifice among the Greeks
For the Greeks, the sharing of cooked meats was the fundamental communal act, so that to become vegetarian was a way of refusing society. It follows that the roasting or cooking of meat was a political act, as the division of portions asserted a social order. And the only proper manner of preparing meat for consumption, according to the Greeks, was blood sacrifice. The fundamental myth is that of Prometheus, who introduced sacrifice and, in the process, both joined us to and separated us from the gods—and ambiguous relation that recurs in marriage and in the growing of grain. Thus we can understand why the ascetic man refuses both women and meat, and why Greek women celebrated the festival of grain-giving Demeter with instruments of butchery. The ambiguity coded in the consumption of meat generated a mythology of the "other"—werewolves, Scythians, Ethiopians, and other "monsters." The study of the sacrificial consumption of meat thus leads into exotic territory and to unexpected findings. In The Cuisine of Sacrifice, the contributors—all scholars affiliated with the Center for Comparative Studies of Ancient Societies in Paris—apply methods from structural anthropology, comparative religion, and philology to a diversity of topics: the relation of political power to sacrificial practice; the Promethean myth as the foundation story of sacrificial practice; representations of sacrifice found on Greek vases; the technique and anatomy of sacrifice; the interaction of image, language, and ritual; the position of women in sacrificial custom and the female ritual of the Thesmophoria; the mythical status of wolves in Greece and their relation to the sacrifice of domesticated animals; the role and significance of food-related ritual in Homer and Hesiod; ancient Greek perceptions of Scythian sacrificial rites; and remnants of sacrificial ritual in modern Greek practices.
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Through Chinese Eyes
Tradition, Revolution, and TransformationThrough Chinese Eyes is a treasure trove that introduces students to a vivid, multifaceted, tumultuous, changing China through Chinese eyes. Ranging widely over the twentieth century revolution and the post-Mao era of market-oriented reform, roaming from village to city, and from villagers to the highest reaches of power and wealth, this volume offers a superb topically organized introduction to modern China's history, politics, society, culture and international relations. While privileging Chinese voices, the authors provide valuable introductions to clarify central issues essential for grasping China's transformations.
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Culture and Customs of Panama
Students studying international politics, anthropology, world culture, and current events will find this to be a useful resource. This volume explores contemporary culture in Panama, a melting pot deep in the heart of Central America.
€ 64,95