Author: Janice K. Brummond
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Languages : en
Pages : 644

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Author: Jane Costlow
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 1317099222
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 285

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Bringing together a team of scholars from the diverse fields of geography, literary studies, and history, this is the first volume to study water as a cultural phenomenon within the Russian/Soviet context. Water in this context is both a cognitive and cultural construct and a geographical and physical phenomenon, representing particular rivers (the Volga, the Chusovaia in the Urals, the Neva) and bodies of water (from Baikal to sacred springs and the flowing water of nineteenth-century estates), but also powerful systems of meaning from traditional cultures and those forged in the radical restructuring undertaken in the 1930s. Individual chapters explore the polyvalence and contestation of meanings, dimensions, and values given to water in various times and spaces in Russian history. The reservoir of symbolic association is tapped by poets and film-makers but also by policy-makers, the popular press, and advertisers seeking to incite reaction or drive sales. The volume's emphasis on the cultural dimensions of water will link material that is often widely disparate in time and space; it will also serve as the methodological framework for the analysis undertaken both within chapters and in the editors' introduction.

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Languages : en
Pages : 790

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Author: Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 838

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Author: George Ripley
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 800

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Author: George Ripley
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 796

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Author: George Ripley
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Category : Encyclopedias and dictionaries
Languages : en
Pages : 840

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Author: Sir Henry Hoyle Howorth
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Category : Asia
Languages : en
Pages : 792

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Author: Jeremiah Curtin
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Category : Golden Horde
Languages : en
Pages : 560

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Author: Celeste Ray
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 9781003010142
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 398

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Describing sacred waters and their associated traditions in over thirty countries and across multiple time periods, this book identifies patterns in panhuman hydrolatry. Supplying life's most basic daily need, freshwater sources were likely the earliest sacred sites, and the first protected and contested resource. Guarded by taboos, rites and supermundane forces, freshwater sources have also been considered thresholds to otherworlds. Often associated also with venerated stones, trees and healing flora, sacred water sources are sites of biocultural diversity. Addressing themes that will shape future water research, this volume examines cultural perceptions of water's sacrality that can be employed to foster resilient human-environmental relationships in the growing water crises of the twenty-first century. The work combines perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, classics, folklore, geography, geology, history, literature and religious studies.