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Marciniak, Katarzyna, ed. Chasing Mythical Beasts. Universitätsverlag WINTER, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.33675/2021-82537874.

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Classical Antiquity is strongly present in youth culture globally. It accompanies children during their initiation into adulthood and thereby deepens their knowledge of the cultural code based on the Greek and Roman heritage. It enables intergenerational communication, with the reception of the Classics being able to serve as a marker of transformations underway in societies the world over. The team of contributors from Europe, North America, Africa, Asia, Australia, and New Zealand focuses on the reception of mythical creatures as the key to these transformations, including the changes in hum

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Murphy, Jill, and Laura Rascaroli, eds. Theorizing Film Through Contemporary Art. Amsterdam University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5117/9789462989467.

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As the cinematic experience becomes subsumed into today's ubiquitous technologies of seeing, contemporary artworks lift the cinematic out of the immateriality of the film screen and separate it into its physical components within the gallery space. How to read these reformulations of the cinematic medium - and their critique of what it is and has been? In Theorizing Cinema Through Contemporary Art: Expanding Cinema, leading film theorists consider artworks that incorporate, restage, and re-present cinema's configuration of the key categories of space, experience, presence/absence, production a

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Kölbl, Marko, and Fritz Trümpi, eds. Music and Democracy. mdwPress / transcript Verlag, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.14361/9783839456576.

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Music and Democracy explores music as a resource for societal transformation processes. This book provides recent insights into how individuals and groups used and still use music to achieve social, cultural, and political participation and bring about social change. The contributors present outstanding perspectives on the topic: From the promise and myth of democratization through music technology to the use of music in imposing authoritarian, neoliberal or even fascist political ideas in the past and present up to music's impact on political systems, governmental representation, and socio-po

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Cleve-Bannister, Candida. Genealogy of the Cleves: A history of the Cleve family from it's [sic] mythical beginnings in A.D. 732 and descent from Julius Caesar to the present day. C. Cleve-Bannister, 1991.

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Thunder Rides a Black Horse: Mescalero Apaches and the Mythic Present. Waveland Pr Inc, 2010.

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Thunder rides a black horse: Mescalero Apaches and the mythic present. Waveland Press, 1994.

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Thunder Rides a Black Horse: Mescalero Apaches and the Mythic Present. 2nd ed. Waveland Press, 1996.

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Chidester, David. Time. Edited by Michael Stausberg and Steven Engler. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780198729570.013.24.

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This chapter illustrates mythic and ritual productions of time. Ritual produces regularities that are coordinated by clocks and calendars. Two basic ways of producing religious time, ancestral and mythic, represent different constructions of temporal continuity. Ancestral time, relying on memory, establishes continuity between human generations. Mythic time, transmitted in narratives of origin and destiny, establishes continuity through underlying moral, legal, or forensic relations between actions and consequences. While establishing temporal continuity, mythic time can also signal temporal r

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Correa, Marcel. Mythical Formula One: 1966 to Present. Schiffer, 2013.

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Clarke, Katherine. Walking through History. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198744771.003.0002.

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This chapter explores the idea that myths are a key element in the creation of landscape, whereby mere space is transformed into resonant place through the matrix of time. In spite of the local nature and uses of many mythical narratives, it is argued here that mobility is central to understanding the power and value of the mythical past. Not only do the travels of itinerant heroes link together mythical venues, but later travels, such as those of characters in Herodotus’ Histories or of authors themselves, illustrated by Pausanias, activate the resonances of the landscape and give it a tempor

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Yaeger, Jason, and José María López. Inca Sacred Landscapes in the Titicaca Basin. Edited by Sonia Alconini and Alan Covey. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190219352.013.21.

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Sacred landscapes are networks of meaningful places that are often woven together in mythic frameworks. Frequently they are understood as narratives, which are re-enacted through rituals and processions. We present archaeological data from the Copacabana Peninsula and Tiwanaku to show how the Inca appropriated pre-existing places and transformed the sacred landscape of the Titicaca Basin to inscribe the politically powerful Viracocha creation narrative, which held that Viracocha emerged on the Island of the Sun and travelled to Tiwanaku, where he created the sun, the moon, and the ancestral co

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Hicks-Keeton, Jill. Introduction. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190878993.003.0001.

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The Introduction claims that the ancient romance Joseph and Aseneth moves a minor character in Genesis from obscurity to renown, weaving a new story whose main purpose was to intervene in ancient Jewish debates surrounding gentile access to Israel’s God. Aseneth’s story is a tale of the heroine’s transformation from exclusion to inclusion. It is simultaneously a transformative tale. For Second Temple-period thinkers, the epic of the Jewish people recounted in scriptural texts was a story that invited interpretation, interruption, and even intervention. Joseph and Aseneth participates in a broa

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Blackstone, Sarah J. Buckskins, Bullets, and Business. Greenwood, 1986. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400621864.

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Blackstone focuses on the career of William F. Buffalo Bill Cody during the years in which he organized, promoted, and starred in his celebrated Wild West show. Basing her research on primary sources such as photographs, programs, route books, and scrapbooks of newspaper clippings kept by Cody and other participants in the show, Blackstone provides a vivid history of the famed extravaganza. Included in her discussion are the logistics of touring a huge show, the performers and their origins, semiotic analysis of each performance event, and the treatment of Indians and other minorities. Blackst

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Kelley, Dennis Francis, and Suzanne J. Crawford O'Brien, eds. American Indian Religious Traditions. ABC-CLIO, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400611032.

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Combining the work of Native Americans and non-Native scholars, this reference work explores indigenous North American religions, religious practices, and rituals. This extensive work goes beyond similar surveys that focus only on anthropology and history and explores the religious practices, movements, institutions, key figures, ceremonial systems, and religious accoutrements indigenous to North America, from the precontact era to the present. Taking a deep and informed look specifically at the religious and spiritual nature of Native Americans, the encyclopedia places traditions within their

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Dwyer, Michael D. Tinsel and Rust. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197613597.001.0001.

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Abstract Tinsel and Rust tells the story of Hollywood’s role in the making (and the remaking) of the Rust Belt in the United States. Since the 1970s, filmic representations of shuttered auto plants, furloughed millworkers, and decaying downtowns in the industrial heartland have contributed to pervasive narratives of American malaise and decline. In more recent years, cities like Pittsburgh, Detroit, and Cleveland have all attempted to remake their public image and revitalize their economies through film and media production. Hollywood has played a central role in teaching us how to look at the

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Von Eschen, Penny M. Paradoxes of Nostalgia. Duke University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.1215/9781478022848.

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In Paradoxes of Nostalgia; Penny M. Von Eschen offers a sweeping examination of the cold war’s afterlife and the lingering shadows it casts over geopolitics, journalism, and popular culture. She shows how myriad forms of nostalgia across the globe—from those that posit a mythic national past to those critical of neoliberalism that remember a time when people believed in the possibility of a collective good—indelibly shape the post-cold war era. When Western triumphalism moved into the global South and former Eastern bloc spaces, many articulated a powerful sense of loss and a longing for stabi

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Cabreira, Regina Helena Urias. Reflexões literárias sobre a mulher, o mito, o herói, a história e a sociedade. Brazil Publishing, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.31012/978-65-5861-008-3.

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This work presents monographs from former students of the Letters Course – Portuguese/English and Letters Course – English at the Federal Technological University of Parana. These studies relie on the uniqueness of each approach and on the expression of young values and perceptions referring to women’s role in society, from the 18th through the 20th century; to an outstanding symbolic analysis of a renowned masterpiece; to the legitimacy mythology brings to a literary discussion on the hero’s journey; to the courage to cast the disconcerting gothic perspective on works considered only modernis

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Wood, Juliette. Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore: From Medieval Times to the Present Day. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

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Wood, Juliette. Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore: From Medieval Times to the Present Day. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

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Wood, Juliette. Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore: From Medieval Times to the Present Day. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

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Wood, Juliette. Fantastic Creatures in Mythology and Folklore: From Medieval Times to the Present Day. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2018.

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Garuda-past and present: A bird's eye view of South Indian traditions. Navbharath Enterprises, 2014.

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Meylan, Nicolas. (Mythical) Battles in Medieval Scandinavia. Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190911966.003.0002.

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This chapter uses Lincoln’s critical analysis of myth to examine various medieval poetic and historiographical accounts of the battle of Hjørung Bay, fought by Danes and Norwegians off the coast of Norway in the late tenth century.. These accounts, which for the most part postdate the battle by some two hundred years, are compared not to reconstruct the event itself but rather to identify the political subtexts embedded in them. It argues that these battle narratives, like cosmogonic myths in other contexts, have played a key ideological role in the construction of social and political identit

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Lowery, Malinda Maynor. The Lumbee Indians. University of North Carolina Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5149/northcarolina/9781469646374.001.0001.

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Jamestown, the Lost Colony of Roanoke, and Plymouth Rock are central to America's mythic origin stories. Then, we are told, the main characters--the "friendly" Native Americans who met the settlers--disappeared. But the history of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina demands that we tell a different story. As the largest tribe east of the Mississippi and one of the largest in the country, the Lumbees have survived in their original homelands, maintaining a distinct identity as Indians in a biracial South. In this passionately written, sweeping work of history, Malinda Maynor Lowery narrates the

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Munson, Rosaria. Thucydides and Myth. Edited by Sara Forsdyke, Edith Foster, and Ryan Balot. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199340385.013.7.

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This essay shows how in Thucydides, and especially in the Archaeology, the mythological periods of Greek history become the subject of argumentation, rather than narrative exposition. It also points out the absence of references to myth and mythological figures from the speeches of the History. By contrast, Thucydides recorded the past and present formation of myths—for instance, the myth of the tyrant slayers Harmodius and Aristogiton—and the social and political effect of such myths. References to mythological figures were therefore restricted to the narrator, who may recall them at moments

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Saunders, Max. Imagined Futures. Oxford University Press, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198829454.001.0001.

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This study provides the first substantial history and analysis of the To-Day and To-Morrow series of 110 books, published by Kegan Paul Trench and Trübner (and E. P. Dutton in the USA) from 1923 to 1931, in which writers chose a topic, described its present, and predicted its future. Contributors included J. B. S. Haldane, Bertrand Russell, Vernon Lee, Robert Graves, Vera Brittain, Sylvia Pankhurst, Hugh McDiarmid, James Jeans, J. D. Bernal, Winifred Holtby, André Maurois, and many others. The study combines a comprehensive account of its interest, history, and range with a discussion of its k

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Moore, Marshall, and Sam Meekings, eds. The Scholarship of Creative Writing Practice. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350291027.

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The first study to explore deeply and intimately the complex and multifaceted nature of creative writing practice, The Scholarship of Creative Writing and Practice offers a new route in scholarly inquiry for creative writing studies, probing beyond pedagogical methods (with which most of the field’s scholarship is occupied) to explore the writing life as it is experienced by a wealth of international writer/academics. With academic creative writing programs beginning to adopt a more pragmatic, industry-focused stance, students of writing increasingly need and expect to complete their degrees m

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Wickerson, Erica. Myth. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198793274.003.0005.

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Mythology was of great interest to Mann and allusions to well-known myths appear in many guises across his works. It is also of interest in terms of narrative time. This chapter takes a selection of works in which Mann toys—to varying degrees of subtlety—with mythic tales, and explores the way in which nods to well-known mythological tales affect the subjective flow of time. I explore the different models presented in Felix Krull, Blood of the Walsungs, and Doctor Faustus, and compare these to Günter Grass’s The Tin Drum, a work that engages closely with Mann’s writing. This analysis illustrat

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William Padilla, Mark. Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock. Lexington Books, 2016. https://doi.org/10.5040/9781666988246.

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Classical Myth in Four Films of Alfred Hitchcock presents an original study of Alfred Hitchcock by considering how his classics-informed London upbringing marks some of his films. The Catholic and Irish-English Hitchcock (1899-1980) was born to a mercantile family and attended a Jesuit college preparatory, whose curriculum featured Latin and classical humanities. An important expression of Edwardian culture at-large was an appreciation for classical ideas, texts, images, and myth. Mark Padilla traces the ways that Hitchcock’s films convey mythical themes, patterns, and symbols, though they do

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González, Cristina Salcedo. Persephone Myth in Young Adult Fiction. Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9781350401228.

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Investigating the widespread but understudied presence of the Persephone myth within 21st-century young adult literature, Cristina Salcedo González analyses six young adult novels which incorporate a reworking of this ancient Greek myth.Through the identification of mythic themes (‘mythemes’) and patterns within these novels, González shows that these works evoke the female life cycle and develop current perceptions of the female maturational experience. As a result, González makes an important contribution in establishing the cultural significance of young adult literature in the world of cla

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Rahman, Smita A. Honor and Political Imagination. Oxford University PressNew York, 2024. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780197642115.001.0001.

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Abstract Honor is often considered to be obsolete, musty, and tethered to a distant past of jousting knights and profound inequality. And yet it endures in the present, and it is its very conceptual slipperiness that allows it to inspire political action, even as it binds and blinds one to the consequences of a rigid attachment to it. Honor persists in the political imagination and generates an almost mythic source of meaning for those who draw inspiration from it for heroic (and often reckless) acts. Honor can inspire one to act with courage and conviction, but at the same time it is profound

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Kurt T, Lash. Nine The Fall of the Original Ninth Amendment and the Rise of New Deal Constitutionalism. Oxford University Press, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780195372618.003.09.

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This chapter begins with a fairly exhaustive account of the use of the Ninth Amendment in state and federal courts prior to the New Deal. There is nothing new here in terms of theory: one finds the same analysis of the Ninth Amendment already developed in prior chapters repeated over and over again in state and federal courts throughout the Progressive era. There is a purpose, however, to including this history. One of the most durable myths about the Ninth Amendment is that it attracted little attention prior to the modern Supreme Court's discovery of the Ninth in Griswold v. Connecticut. The

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Morton, Patricia. Disfigured Images. Greenwood Publishing Group, Inc., 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216186625.

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Much of the material unearthed by this book is ugly, states historiographer Patricia Morton who exposes profoundly dehumanizing constructions of reality embedded in American scholarship as it has attempted to render the history of the Afro-American woman. Focusing on the scholarly literature of fact rather than on fictional or popular portrayals, Disfigured Images explores the telling--and frequent mis-telling--of the story of black women during a century of American historiography beginning in the late nineteenth century and extending to the present. Morton finds that during this period, a la

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Leuchter, Mark. The Levites and the Early Israelite Monarchy. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780190665098.003.0005.

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The biblical record indicates that the Levites had tense and even hostile relations with Israel’s first kings (with the exception of David), especially the founder of the northern state, Jeroboam b. Nebat. Jeroboam’s cultic initiatives carried a more dramatic political and mythic tone than is often assumed. Devotion to the northern state cult functioned not only as a rehearsal of Emergent Israel’s liberation from Egypt but also as a liberation from the memory of the Davidic kings; this included a marginalization of the Levites once associated with David. In pursuing this avenue of action, Jero

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Tamra, Andrews. Nectar & Ambrosia. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400690358.

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A publishing first, Nectar and Ambrosia presents an encyclopedic treatment of the magic properties and uses of food by mortals and immortals alike, from the pages of myth and legend. Now, for the first time, the magic properties and uses of food by both mortals and immortals as represented in the world's myths and legends are brought together and explained in Nectar and Ambrosia. This A-Z volume is filled with an abundance of exotic lore and legend.

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León Romero, Luis Eduardo, and Paola Andrea Pérez Gil. Sunna Gua. Constataciones del alma. Ediciones Universidad Cooperativa de Colombia, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.16925/9789587602548.

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After years of ancestral journeys of the human psyche and the development of four transcendental research macroprojects in the field, it is time to undertake the method of ancestral walking on the living system of mother earth and her human son as a verifiable sense of essential nature and substantial of the soul. Method of walking in the loving order of the ancestors, the father and the mother, the cosmos and the earth, the sun and the moon. Co-responsible planting of bridging the integration of the ancestral left hand and the western right hand from the sensible, the construction of mythical

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Lindow, John. Old Norse Mythology. Oxford University Press, 2021. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780190852252.001.0001.

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Old Norse Mythology treats the mythology of Scandinavia: the gods Þórr (Thor) with his hammer, the wily and duplicitous Óðinn (Odin), the sly Loki, and other mythological figures. They create the world, battle their enemies, and die at the end of the world, which arises anew with a new generation of gods. These stories were the mythology of the Vikings, but they were not written down until long after the conversion to Christianity, mostly in Iceland. The mythology of the Vikings was an oral mythology, without canonical or even fixed texts. Following contemporary research trends, this book reco

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Cabrera, Lydia, and Victor Manfredi. The Sacred Language of the Abakuá. Edited by Ivor L. Miller and P. González Gómes-Cásseres. University Press of Mississippi, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.14325/mississippi/9781496829443.001.0001.

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In 1988, Lydia Cabrera (1899–1991) published La lengua sagrada de los Ñáñigos, an Abakuá phrasebook that is to this day the largest work available on any African diaspora community in the Americas. In the early 1800s in Cuba, enslaved Africans from the Cross River region of southeastern Nigeria and southwestern Cameroon created Abakuá societies for protection and mutual aid. Abakuá rites reenact mythic legends of the institution’s history in Africa, using dance, chants, drumming, symbolic writing, herbs, domestic animals, and masked performers to represent African ancestors. Criminalized and s

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Uzendoski, Michael A., and Edith Felicia Calapucha-Tapuy. The Petroglyphs and the Twins’ Ascent. University of Illinois Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.5406/illinois/9780252036569.003.0007.

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This chapter presents two stories about the twins, a story about the petroglyphs they left here on the earth and their conversion into stars. Both of these stories reveal the inscribed textuality of transformations embodied in the “twins” stories. The examples show how Quichua speakers “read” their stories from experience within a living landscape that is rich with the presence of mythological beings and transformations. The presentation of the final episode of the twins cycle, their ascent into the sky, also forces us to confront the question “What is to be done once all the myths have been t

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Roberts, Charlotte A. Leprosy. University Press of Florida, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.5744/florida/9781683401841.001.0001.

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Leprosy is an infection and neglected tropical disease that is steeped in myths, and, although it is described in history books, it can remain a challenge to manage today. Written in an accessible manner for professionals and the public alike, this book takes a global view of leprosy past and present. As a backdrop, it starts with exploring what we actually know about leprosy from medicine, how it is spread to humans, and its effects on the body. It then moves to consider its diagnosis and treatment in people, past and present. The focus switches next to the ways in which leprosy is diagnosed

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Gersel, Johan. What is the Myth of the Given? Oxford University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198809630.003.0005.

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McDowell defends conceptualism about experiential content by arguing that contrary views of experience are forms of the Myth of the Given. The direct realist view of experience, which rejects experiential content altogether, is thus, according to McDowell, a mythical view of experience. A series of defenders of direct realism have responded to McDowell’s accusations. However, the recent debate has revealed that there is very little agreement on the details of McDowell’s argument, let alone on how to respond to it. I will argue that the responses to McDowell given by thinkers such as Travis, Br

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Rhett and Link Present : the Mythical Cookbook: 10 Simple Rules for Cooking Deliciously, Eating Happily, and Living Mythically. HarperCollins Publishers, 2024.

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Bialasiewicz, Luiza. Spectres of Europe: Europe's Past, Present, and Future. Edited by Dan Stone. Oxford University Press, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199560981.013.0005.

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Since the late eighteenth century, the division of Europe into ‘East’ and ‘West’ bespoke not only a particular geography but also a particular temporal divide. Over the past two decades, a number of leading European thinkers have attempted to trace the ‘geo-philosophy’ of the European idea focusing on the idea of Europe as a civitas futura. This article discusses changing understandings of Europe in (and through) time, focusing on how different understandings of Europe's relation to its past, present, and future have been reflected in radically different visions for European geopolitics. After

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Black, Winston. The Middle Ages. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2019. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400685361.

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This book guides readers through 10 pervasive fictions about medieval history, provides them with the sources and analytical tools to critique those fictions, and identifies what really happened in the Middle Ages. This book is the first to present fictions about the medieval world to serious students of history. Instead of merely listing myths and stating they are wrong, this volume promotes critical historical analysis of those myths and how they came to be. Each of the ten chapters outlines a pervasive modern myth about medieval European history, describing "What People Think Happened" and

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Read, Kay Almere, and Jason J. Gonzalez. Handbook of Mesoamerican Mythology. ABC-CLIO, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400661341.

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Sharrock, Alison, Daniel Möller, and Mats Malm, eds. Metamorphic Readings. Oxford University Press, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780198864066.001.0001.

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Ovid’s remarkable and endlessly fascinating Metamorphoses is one of the best known and most popular works of classical literature, and perhaps the most influential of all on later European literature and culture. Loved for its vast repository of mythic material as well as its sophisticated manipulation of story-telling, the poem can be appreciated on many different levels and by audiences of very different backgrounds and educational experiences, whether it is for the tale of Pyramus and Thisbe or the endless but endlessly fascinating debate over the generic status of this epic which breaks al

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Cannady, Kimberly. Echoes of the Colonial Past in Discourse on North Atlantic Popular Music. Edited by Fabian Holt and Antti-Ville Kärjä. Oxford University Press, 2017. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190603908.013.11.

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This chapter brings a postcolonial perspective into the study of popular music in Iceland and the North Atlantic. The argument is that the fascination with Icelandic culture and nature, in which popular music plays a key role, evolves from a sense of “discovery” in the 1980s in Anglophone media that echoes a longer colonial history. The fascination with the present is grounded in the familiar myth of an isolated culture and nature untouched by modernity. Iceland’s authenticity is thus inseparable from the country’s mythical status as a deep freeze for Old Norse heritage and its location at the

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Lynch, Christopher. Formulating Foster. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2025. https://doi.org/10.1093/9780197811726.001.0001.

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Abstract Decades after his death, Stephen C. Foster’s family and fans seized upon his birth on the fiftieth anniversary of the Declaration of Independence (July 4, 1826) and his role in the burgeoning US music industry to mythologize him as a founding father in American cultural history. Hailing him as the father of American music and a symbol of US democracy at the end of the nineteenth century required the collective forgetting of certain facts of his life, particularly his initial rise to fame through controversial minstrel songs depicting nostalgia for enslavement while gradual abolition i

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Fee, Christopher R., and Jeffrey B. Webb, eds. American Myths, Legends, and Tall Tales. ABC-CLIO, LLC, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798400611391.

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A fascinating survey of the entire history of tall tales, folklore, and mythology in the United States from earliest times to the present, including stories and myths from the modern era that have become an essential part of contemporary popular culture. Folklore has been a part of American culture for as long as humans have inhabited North America, and increasingly formed an intrinsic part of American culture as diverse peoples from Europe, Africa, Asia, and Oceania arrived. In modern times, folklore and tall tales experienced a rejuvenation with the emergence of urban legends and the growing

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Rosser, Sue V., ed. Women, Science, and Myth. ABC-CLIO, Inc., 2008. http://dx.doi.org/10.5040/9798216037736.

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This encyclopedia surveys the scientific research on gender throughout the ages the people, experiments, and impact of both legitimate and illegitimate findings on the scientific community, women scientists, and society at large. Women, Science, and Myth: Gender Beliefs from Antiquity to the Present examines the ways scientists have researched gender throughout history, the ways those results have affected society, and the impact they have had on the scientific community and on women, women scientists, and women's rights movements. In chronologically organized entries, Women, Science, and Myth

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