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Varia folklorica.
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ISBN: 9027977208 Year: 1978 Publisher: The Hague Mouton

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Folklore in the modern world
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ISBN: 9027977402 3110803097 9783110803099 0202900606 9780202900605 9789027977403 Year: 1978 Publisher: The Hague [Noordeinde 41] Chicago Mouton Distributed in the USA and Canada by Aldine

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Eating their words : cannibalism and the boundaries of cultural identity
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ISBN: 0791450902 0791450899 9780791450901 9780791450895 0791490017 9780791490013 Year: 2001 Publisher: Albany, New York : State University of New York Press,

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Linking cannibalism to issues of difference crucial to contemporary literary criticism and theory, the essays included here cover material from a variety of contexts and historical periods and approach their subjects from a range of critical perspectives. Along with such canonical works as The Odyssey, The Faerie Queene, and Robinson Crusoe, the contributors also discuss lesser known works, including a version of the Victorian melodrama Sweeny Todd, as well as contemporary postcolonial and postmodern novels by Margaret Atwood and Ian Wedde. Taken together, these essays re-theorize the relationship between cannibalism and cultural identity, making cannibalism meaningful within new critical and cultural horizons.Contributors include Mark Buchan, Santiago Colas, Marlene Goldman, Brian Greenspan, Kristen Guest, Minaz Jooma, Robert Viking O'Brien, Geoffrey Sanborn, and Julia M. Wright.


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Naked exhibitionism
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ISBN: 9781848858527 9781848858534 9780857724922 0857724924 1848858523 1848858531 9780857737953 0857737953 Year: 2013 Publisher: London New York New York

Appetites and identities : an introduction to the social anthropology of western Europe.
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ISBN: 0415062543 0415062535 Year: 1995 Publisher: London Routledge

Sociologies de l'alimentation : les mangeurs et l'espace social alimentaire.
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ISBN: 2130506437 9782130506430 Year: 2002 Publisher: Paris PUF

Death and dying : a sociological introduction.
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ISBN: 9780745625331 0745625339 0745625347 9780745625348 Year: 2007 Publisher: Cambridge Polity press


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An intellectual history of cannibalism.
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ISBN: 9780691133270 Year: 2009 Publisher: Princeton Princeton university press


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Thinking through fashion : a guide to key theorists
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ISBN: 9781780767345 9781780767338 1780767331 178076734X 9780857726629 0755694783 0857726625 0857727729 1350125202 1350125202 9781350125209 9781350125209 9780857727725 9780857739865 0857739867 Year: 2016 Publisher: London I.B. Tauris

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"Learning how to think through fashion is both exciting and challenging, being dependent on one's ability to critically engage with an array of theories and concepts. This is the first book designed to accompany readers through the process of thinking through fashion. It aims to help them grasp both the relevance of social and cultural theory to fashion, dress, and material culture and, conversely, the relevance of those fields to social and cultural theory. It does so by offering a guide through the work of selected major thinkers, introducing their concepts and ideas. Each chapter is written by an expert contributor and is devoted to a key thinker, capturing the significance of their thought to the understanding of the field of fashion, while also assessing the importance of this field for a critical engagement with these thinkers' ideas. This is a guide and reference for students and scholars in the fields of fashion, dress and material culture, the creative industries, sociology, cultural history, design and cultural studies."--Publisher website.

Beautiful / ugly : African and diaspora aesthetics.
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ISBN: 0822339188 9780822339182 0822339072 9780822339076 Year: 2006 Publisher: Durham Duke university press

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In Cameroon, a monumental statue of liberty is made from scrap metal. In Congo, a thriving popular music incorporates piercing screams and carnal dances. When these and other instantiations of the aesthetics of Africa and its diasporas are taken into account, how are ideas of beauty reconfigured? Scholars and artists take up that question in this invigorating, lavishly illustrated collection, which includes more than one hundred color images. Exploring sculpture, music, fiction, food, photography, fashion, and urban design, the contributors engage with and depart from canonical aesthetic theories as they demonstrate that beauty cannot be understood apart from ugliness. They show how theories of aesthetics are enriched by attention to anti-aesthetics. And, by suggesting that beaty is in some sense future-oriented, the essayists propose that taking beauty in Africa and its diasporas seriously is a way of rekindling hope in the midst of hardship.

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