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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1304
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
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Category : Periodicals
Languages : en
Pages : 1344
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Catalogue: Authors
Author: Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology. Library
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Its outstanding feature is the inclusion of journal articles. For more than 50 years the periodicals have been indexed, as well as compilations such as Festschriften, and the proceedings of congresses.
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Category : Anthropology
Languages : en
Pages : 544
Book Description
Its outstanding feature is the inclusion of journal articles. For more than 50 years the periodicals have been indexed, as well as compilations such as Festschriften, and the proceedings of congresses.
Fornaldarsagaerne
Author: Agneta Ney
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 8763525798
Category : Fornaldarsögur Norðrlanda
Languages : da
Pages : 386
Book Description
Publisher: Museum Tusculanum Press
ISBN: 8763525798
Category : Fornaldarsögur Norðrlanda
Languages : da
Pages : 386
Book Description
Undoing Homogeneity in the Nordic Region
Author: Suvi Keskinen
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351347365
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138564275_oachapter1.pdf This book critically engages with dominant ideas of cultural homogeneity in the Nordic countries and contests the notion of homogeneity as a crucial determinant of social cohesion and societal security. Showing how national identities in the Nordic region have developed historically around notions of cultural and racial homogeneity, it exposes the varied histories of migration and the longstanding presence of ethnic minorities and indigenous people in the region that are ignored in dominant narratives. With attention to the implications of notions of homogeneity for the everyday lives of migrants and racialised minorities in the region, as well as the increasing securitisation of those perceived not to be part of the homogenous nation, this volume provides detailed analyses of how welfare state policies, media, and authorities seek to manage and govern cultural, religious, and racial differences. With studies of national minorities, indigenous people and migrants in the analysis of homogeneity and difference, it sheds light on the agency of minorities and the intertwining of securitisation policies with notions of culture, race, and religion in the government of difference. As such it will appeal to scholars and students in social sciences and humanities with interests in race and ethnicity, migration, postcolonialism, Nordic studies, multiculturalism, citizenship, and belonging.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351347365
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 250
Book Description
Chapter 1 of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license. https://tandfbis.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/rt-files/docs/Open+Access+Chapters/9781138564275_oachapter1.pdf This book critically engages with dominant ideas of cultural homogeneity in the Nordic countries and contests the notion of homogeneity as a crucial determinant of social cohesion and societal security. Showing how national identities in the Nordic region have developed historically around notions of cultural and racial homogeneity, it exposes the varied histories of migration and the longstanding presence of ethnic minorities and indigenous people in the region that are ignored in dominant narratives. With attention to the implications of notions of homogeneity for the everyday lives of migrants and racialised minorities in the region, as well as the increasing securitisation of those perceived not to be part of the homogenous nation, this volume provides detailed analyses of how welfare state policies, media, and authorities seek to manage and govern cultural, religious, and racial differences. With studies of national minorities, indigenous people and migrants in the analysis of homogeneity and difference, it sheds light on the agency of minorities and the intertwining of securitisation policies with notions of culture, race, and religion in the government of difference. As such it will appeal to scholars and students in social sciences and humanities with interests in race and ethnicity, migration, postcolonialism, Nordic studies, multiculturalism, citizenship, and belonging.
The Folk-stories of Iceland
Author: Einar Ólafur Sveinsson
Publisher: Viking Society for Northern Research University College
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In Iceland, people do not compose verse just to comfort themselves; they worship poetry and believe in it. In poetry is a power which rules men's lives and health, governs wind and sea. This book contains an account of the various types of Icelandic folk-story, their origins and sources, the folk-beliefs they represent, and their meanings.
Publisher: Viking Society for Northern Research University College
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 328
Book Description
In Iceland, people do not compose verse just to comfort themselves; they worship poetry and believe in it. In poetry is a power which rules men's lives and health, governs wind and sea. This book contains an account of the various types of Icelandic folk-story, their origins and sources, the folk-beliefs they represent, and their meanings.
Creative Ethnicity
Author: Stephen Stern
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This text provides readers with a foundation for understanding the general process of program design and equips them with a practical method for designing their own programs. Developing a model of ethnic folklore which assumes that ethnicity is a creative response to personal and social problems, the folklorist contributors to this volume provide examples of this creativity derived from such traditional forms of expression as ceremony, festival, song, rumor, narrative, celebration, and naming practices arising among a cross-section of ethnic groups in American society. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
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ISBN:
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 272
Book Description
This text provides readers with a foundation for understanding the general process of program design and equips them with a practical method for designing their own programs. Developing a model of ethnic folklore which assumes that ethnicity is a creative response to personal and social problems, the folklorist contributors to this volume provide examples of this creativity derived from such traditional forms of expression as ceremony, festival, song, rumor, narrative, celebration, and naming practices arising among a cross-section of ethnic groups in American society. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Witchcraft and Magic in the Nordic Middle Ages
Author: Stephen A. Mitchell
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able—and who in some instances thought themselves able—to manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these beliefs in the legal, literary, and popular cultures of the Nordic Middle Ages. His sources range from the Icelandic sagas to cultural monuments much less familiar to the nonspecialist, including legal cases, church art, law codes, ecclesiastical records, and runic spells. Mitchell's starting point is the year 1100, by which time Christianity was well established in elite circles throughout Scandinavia, even as some pre-Christian practices and beliefs persisted in various forms. The book's endpoint coincides with the coming of the Reformation and the onset of the early modern Scandinavian witch hunts. The terrain covered is complex, home to the Germanic Scandinavians as well as their non-Indo-European neighbors, the Sámi and Finns, and it encompasses such diverse areas as the important trade cities of Copenhagen, Bergen, and Stockholm, with their large foreign populations; the rural hinterlands; and the insular outposts of Iceland and Greenland. By examining witches, wizards, and seeresses in literature, lore, and law, as well as surviving charm magic directed toward love, prophecy, health, and weather, Mitchell provides a portrait of both the practitioners of medieval Nordic magic and its performance. With an understanding of mythology as a living system of cultural signs (not just ancient sacred narratives), this study also focuses on such powerful evolving myths as those of "the milk-stealing witch," the diabolical pact, and the witches' journey to Blåkulla. Court cases involving witchcraft, charm magic, and apostasy demonstrate that witchcraft ideologies played a key role in conceptualizing gender and were themselves an important means of exercising social control.
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN: 0812203712
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 384
Book Description
Stephen A. Mitchell here offers the fullest examination available of witchcraft in late medieval Scandinavia. He focuses on those people believed to be able—and who in some instances thought themselves able—to manipulate the world around them through magical practices, and on the responses to these beliefs in the legal, literary, and popular cultures of the Nordic Middle Ages. His sources range from the Icelandic sagas to cultural monuments much less familiar to the nonspecialist, including legal cases, church art, law codes, ecclesiastical records, and runic spells. Mitchell's starting point is the year 1100, by which time Christianity was well established in elite circles throughout Scandinavia, even as some pre-Christian practices and beliefs persisted in various forms. The book's endpoint coincides with the coming of the Reformation and the onset of the early modern Scandinavian witch hunts. The terrain covered is complex, home to the Germanic Scandinavians as well as their non-Indo-European neighbors, the Sámi and Finns, and it encompasses such diverse areas as the important trade cities of Copenhagen, Bergen, and Stockholm, with their large foreign populations; the rural hinterlands; and the insular outposts of Iceland and Greenland. By examining witches, wizards, and seeresses in literature, lore, and law, as well as surviving charm magic directed toward love, prophecy, health, and weather, Mitchell provides a portrait of both the practitioners of medieval Nordic magic and its performance. With an understanding of mythology as a living system of cultural signs (not just ancient sacred narratives), this study also focuses on such powerful evolving myths as those of "the milk-stealing witch," the diabolical pact, and the witches' journey to Blåkulla. Court cases involving witchcraft, charm magic, and apostasy demonstrate that witchcraft ideologies played a key role in conceptualizing gender and were themselves an important means of exercising social control.
Icelandic Folktales and Legends
Author: Jacqueline Simpson
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520021167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A translated selection devoted to supernatural beings, ghosts, and magic practices.
Publisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 9780520021167
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
A translated selection devoted to supernatural beings, ghosts, and magic practices.
Culture and Rights
Author: Jane K. Cowan
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521797351
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Part I: Setting universal rights
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521797351
Category : Law
Languages : en
Pages : 276
Book Description
Part I: Setting universal rights
Thou Fearful Guest
Author: Merrill Kaplan
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789514110689
Category : Erzählung / gnd
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A stranger appears at the court of a Norwegian king known best for bringing Christianity to the North. Variations of this scene appearfour times in the fourteenth-century manuscript Flateyjarbók. Thou Fearful Guest analyzes how these episodes create meaning by their connections to custom, law, myth, discourses of historical and spiritual truth, typological understandings of time, and the historical context of the manuscript in which they appear. Thou Fearful Guest explores how and to what end medieval Icelanders thought about tales of heathen gods and heroes. -- Publisher website.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789514110689
Category : Erzählung / gnd
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
A stranger appears at the court of a Norwegian king known best for bringing Christianity to the North. Variations of this scene appearfour times in the fourteenth-century manuscript Flateyjarbók. Thou Fearful Guest analyzes how these episodes create meaning by their connections to custom, law, myth, discourses of historical and spiritual truth, typological understandings of time, and the historical context of the manuscript in which they appear. Thou Fearful Guest explores how and to what end medieval Icelanders thought about tales of heathen gods and heroes. -- Publisher website.