Homo Necans. The Anthropology of Ancient Greek Sacrificial Ritual and Myth, Paperback - Walter Burkert

Blood sacrifice, the ritual slaughter of animals, has been basic to religion through history, so that it survives in spiritualized form even in Chr...

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A leading scholar in the United States on Chinese archaeology challenges long-standing conceptions of the rise of political authority in ancient Ch...

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This volume assembles in one place the work of scholars who are making key contributions to the anthropological approach to the UN, other global or...

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Anthropological interest in new subjects of research and contemporary knowledge practices has turned ethnographic attention to a wide ranging varie...

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Tracing the myths surrounding plants used as medicine within the very temples where worship of the god Asclepius took place.Publisher: John Hunt Pu...

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Missionary, linguist, and ethnographer Emile Petitot (1838-1916) was known for his work in Canada's Northwest Territories and as the author of a co...

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Magic, miracles, daemonology, divination, astrology, and alchemy were the arcana mundi, the "secrets of the universe, " of the ancient Greeks and R...

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This original, field-changing collection explores the plasticity and unfinishedness of human subjects and lifeworlds, advancing the conceptual terr...

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Myth, Ritual and the Oral - Jack Goody

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Tarzan is still an icon of adventure, because like all adventurers, his actions have universal qualities: doing something previously untried, revea...

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F.G. Bailey's contributions to anthropological theory and method are illuminated in this edited volume. Chapters variously present, apply, and trac...

Greek Myth and Western Art: The Presence of the Past - Karl Kilinski II

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The Art of Ancient Music discusses music's role in the long story of human creativity. While emphasizing broad human themes, the text has a special...

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