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Allt sedan Max Webers berömda tes om Entzauberung der Welt avförtrollningen av världen i ljuset av religionens tillbakagång i samband med upplysning och vetenskapliga framsteg, har …
VINNARE AV STORA FACKBOKSPRISET 2021!Prismotivering:"Författaren tar med sina läsare på en oupphörligen givande resa genom tid och rum. I tolv essäer om varelser i vatten från val …
Benjamin Christensen’s Häxan (The Witch, 1922) stands as a singular film within the history of cinema. Deftly weaving contemporary scientific analysis and powerfully staged …
This book is an ambitious and wide-ranging social and cultural history of gender relations among indigenous peoples of New Spain, from the Spanish conquest through the first half …
Is the "Oedipus complex" universal? This book examines the controversial question in light of its collection of 139 family complex folktales from every world cultural area and …
Did Oedipus really kill his father and marry his mother? Or is he nothing but a scapegoat, set up to take the blame for a crisis afflicting Thebes? For René Girard, the mythic …
A Stanford University Press classic.
Sunday dinners, basement kitchens, and backyard gardens are everyday cultural entities long associated with Italian Americans, yet the general perception of them remains …