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Medusa's Hair

Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022618921X
Total Pages : 236 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (261 download)

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Download or read book Medusa's Hair written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2014-02-08 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The great pilgrimage center of southeastern Sri Lanka, Kataragama, has become in recent years the spiritual home of a new class of Hindu-Buddhist religious devotees. These ecstatic priests and priestesses invariably display long locks of matted hair, and they express their devotion to the gods through fire walking, tongue-piercing, hanging on hooks, and trance-induced prophesying. The increasing popularity of these ecstatics poses a challenge not only to orthodox Sinhala Buddhism (the official religion of Sri Lanka) but also, as Gananath Obeyesekere shows, to the traditional anthropological and psychoanalytic theories of symbolism. Focusing initially on one symbol, matted hair, Obeyesekere demonstrates that the conventional distinction between personal and cultural symbols is inadequate and naive. His detailed case studies of ecstatics show that there is always a reciprocity between the personal-psychological dimension of the symbol and its public, culturally sanctioned role. Medusa's Hair thus makes an important theoretical contribution both to the anthropology of individual experience and to the psychoanalytic understanding of culture. In its analyses of the symbolism of guilt, the adaptational and integrative significance of belief in spirits, and a host of related issues concerning possession states and religiosity, this book marks a provocative advance in psychological anthropology.

Little Medusa's Hair Do-Lemma

Author : Jennifer Buchet
Publisher : Spork
ISBN 13 : 9781950169474
Total Pages : 32 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (694 download)

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Download or read book Little Medusa's Hair Do-Lemma written by Jennifer Buchet and published by Spork. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 32 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Little Medusa comes from a long line of snake-loving, serpentine-wearing Gorgons. When she receives her very first snake, Little Medusa discovers that having a snake slither and slide through her hair isn't so great after all. And to make matters more difficult, she begins questioning if she really wants to scare her friends to stone with her new forever friend. Using her imagination and heart, Little Medusa tries her best to please her family, her best-pet snake, and herself. Based on Greek Mythology, Little Medusa features Common Core Connections and explores the universal themes of following family tradition and staying true to oneself.

Brush Your Hair, Medusa! (Mini Myths)

Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Abrams
ISBN 13 : 1613127375
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Brush Your Hair, Medusa! (Mini Myths) written by Joan Holub and published by Abrams. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medusa refuses to care for her hair, her long locks getting knottier and dirtier with each passing page. Her hair rebellion elicits frozen expressions of shock from her family, but nothing will convince Medusa to brush. Only her hairdresser approaches Medusa with bravery and a blade, successfully solving the problem . . . with a short haircut! All are pleased with this drastic yet adorable solution. Leslie Patricelli’s depictions of this physical comedy bring a lively visual narrative to Joan Holub’s expertly focused text. Includes a summary of the original Medusa’s Wild Hair myth at the end. Also available in the Mini Myths series: Don't Get Lost, Odysseus and Good Job, Athena!

Medusa's Hair

Author : Gananath Obeyesekere
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (552 download)

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Download or read book Medusa's Hair written by Gananath Obeyesekere and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Medusa's Stony Stare

Author : Jessica Gunderson
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1404878203
Total Pages : 18 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (48 download)

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Download or read book Medusa's Stony Stare written by Jessica Gunderson and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2011-07 with total page 18 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medusa, once a bewitching beauty, has become a hideous monster with snakes for hair. When men look at her, they turn to stone. Whe King Polydectes sends Perseus for Medusas head, he thinks Perseus will soon be another one of Medusas stone men. Or will he?

Mini Myths: Brush Your Hair, Medusa!

Author : Joan Holub
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
ISBN 13 : 9781419709531
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (95 download)

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Book Synopsis Mini Myths: Brush Your Hair, Medusa! by : Joan Holub

Download or read book Mini Myths: Brush Your Hair, Medusa! written by Joan Holub and published by Harry N. Abrams. This book was released on 2015-03-24 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Medusa knows she has to brush her hair, but doing somersaults seems much more important.

When They Severed Earth from Sky

Author : E. J. W. Barber
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691127743
Total Pages : 311 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book When They Severed Earth from Sky written by E. J. W. Barber and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2006-09-25 with total page 311 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? This groundbreaking book points the way to restoring some of that lost history and teaching about storytelling.

Medusa's Mirror

Author : Elizabeth Catanese
Publisher : ABDO
ISBN 13 : 1098230949
Total Pages : 51 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (982 download)

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Download or read book Medusa's Mirror written by Elizabeth Catanese and published by ABDO. This book was released on 2021-08-01 with total page 51 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Evelyn heads to Mt. Olympus Theme Park to celebrate her winning a hair design contest, where she travels through a mirror in Athena's Hall of Mirrors to a myth; but when she meets Perseus on a mission to behead Medusa, Evelyn wants to try a more creative approach. Aligned to Common Core Standards and correlated to state standards. Spellbound is an imprint of Magic Wagon, a division of ABDO.

Medusa's Ankles

Author : A. S. Byatt
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0593321596
Total Pages : 474 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (933 download)

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Download or read book Medusa's Ankles written by A. S. Byatt and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-11-23 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A ravishing, luminous selection of short stories from the prize-winning imagination of A. S. Byatt, "a storyteller who could keep a sultan on the edge of his throne for a thousand and one nights" (The New York Times Book Review). With an introduction by David Mitchell, best-selling author of Cloud Atlas Mirrors shatter at the hairdresser's when a middle-aged client explodes in rage. Snow dusts the warm body of a princess, honing it into something sharp and frosted. Summer sunshine flickers on the face of a smiling child who may or may not be real. Medusa's Ankles celebrates the very best of A. S. Byatt's short fiction, carefully selected from a lifetime of writing. Peopled by artists, poets, and fabulous creatures, the stories blaze with creativity and color. From ancient myth to a British candy factory, from a Chinese restaurant to a Mediterranean swimming pool, from a Turkish bazaar to a fairy-tale palace, Byatt transports her readers beyond the veneer of the ordinary—even beyond the gloss of the fantastical—to places rich and strange and wholly unforgettable.

Medusa's Gaze

Author : Marina Belozerskaya
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN 13 : 0199739315
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (997 download)

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Download or read book Medusa's Gaze written by Marina Belozerskaya and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2012 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The long and intricate history of the beautifully carved Hellenistic style Egyptian bowl, from the days of Cleopatra to Constantinople, the French Revolution, and to near destruction by a deranged museum guard in 1925.

Representations of Hair in Victorian Literature and Culture

Author : Galia Ofek
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351904183
Total Pages : 437 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book Representations of Hair in Victorian Literature and Culture written by Galia Ofek and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-12-05 with total page 437 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Galia Ofek's wide-ranging study elucidates the historical, artistic, literary, and theoretical meanings of the Victorians' preoccupation with hair. Victorian writers and artists, Ofek argues, had a well-developed awareness of fetishism as an overinvestment of value in a specific body part and were fully cognizant of hair's symbolic resonance and its value as an object of commerce. In particular, they were increasingly alert to the symbolic significance of hairstyling. Among the writers and artists Ofek considers are Elizabeth Gaskell, George Eliot, Margaret Oliphant, Charles Darwin, Anthony Trollope, Elizabeth Barrett Browning, Eliza Lynn Linton, Mary Elizabeth Braddon, Herbert Spencer, Dante Gabriel Rossetti, Edward Burne-Jones, Charles Dickens, Thomas Hardy, and Aubrey Beardsley. By examining fiction, poetry, anthropological and scientific works, newspaper reviews and advertisements, correspondence, jewellery, paintings, and cartoons, Ofek shows how changing patterns of power relations between women and patriarchy are rendered anew when viewed through the lens of Victorian hair codes and imagery during the second half of the nineteenth century.

Myth-O-Mania: Say Cheese, Medusa!

Author : Kate McMullan
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1434246795
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (342 download)

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Download or read book Myth-O-Mania: Say Cheese, Medusa! written by Kate McMullan and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2012-03 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Greek mythology, Medusa was a Gorgon a winged monster with snakes for hair. Anyone who looked at her was instantly turned to stone. But she wasn't born that way. Not even close. Athena was so jealous of Medusa's beauty that she cursed her. Zeus changed the story to make his son, Perseus, look good. Hades is here to set the record straight on Perseus, Medusa, and everything in between.

Mad Men And Medusas

Author : Juliet Mitchell
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0465012116
Total Pages : 398 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (65 download)

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Download or read book Mad Men And Medusas written by Juliet Mitchell and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-01-06 with total page 398 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This worthy successor to Psychoanalysis and Feminism is both a defense of the long-dismissed diagnosis of hysteria as a centerpiece of the human condition and a plea for a new understanding of the influence of sibling and peer relationships. Juliet Mitchell argues that, because it our first social relationship, the sibling relationship is crucial to development, and that it is a critical failure of psychoanalysis and other psychological theories of development to obscure and ignore the importance of siblings and peers. In Mad Men and Medusas Mitchell traces the history of hysteria from the Greek "wandering womb" to modern-day psychiatric diagnoses, arguing that we need to reclaim hysteria to understand how distress and trauma express themselves in different societies and different times. Using fascinating examples from anthropology, Freud's case studies, literature, and her own clinical practice, Mitchell convincingly demonstrates that while hysteria may have disappeared as a disease, it is still a critical factor in understanding psychological development through the life cycle.

Medusa Tells All

Author : Rebecca Fjelland Davis
Publisher : Capstone
ISBN 13 : 1479529605
Total Pages : 33 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (795 download)

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Download or read book Medusa Tells All written by Rebecca Fjelland Davis and published by Capstone. This book was released on 2014 with total page 33 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Introduces the concept of point of view through Medusa's retelling of the classic Greek myth 'Medusa'"--

Medusa's Coil

Author : H.P. Lovecraft
Publisher : Wildside Press LLC
ISBN 13 : 1667682172
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (676 download)

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Download or read book Medusa's Coil written by H.P. Lovecraft and published by Wildside Press LLC. This book was released on 2023-06-05 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A powerful and compelling tale of brooding horror that deepens and broadens to the final catastrophe—an unusual and engrossing novelette by the author of "The Curse of Yig."

Medusa

Author : Rosie Hewlett
Publisher : Silverwood Books
ISBN 13 : 9781800420663
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book Medusa written by Rosie Hewlett and published by Silverwood Books. This book was released on 2021-04-30 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Gorgon. Killer. Monster. Victim. Survivor. Protector. Medusa breathes new life into an ancient story and echoes the battle that women throughout millennia have continued to wage.

Medusa's Master

Author : Cindy Dees
Publisher : HarperCollins Australia
ISBN 13 : 1460824423
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (68 download)

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Download or read book Medusa's Master written by Cindy Dees and published by HarperCollins Australia. This book was released on 2012-07-06 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Captain "Kat" Kim, leader of the all-female Medusa squad, lives by the warrior's code. Trained in an ancient warrior tradition, she can scale a wall in complete silence. But when she's paired with Special Forces Captain Jeff Steiger, she faces new danger. Steiger is all-American, from his blue eyes to his sun-streaked hair, and his laid-back manner goes against Kat's control-freak ways. When the two hunt for a high-end art thief, their opposite styles combust. And as mysterious commandos turn the job deadly, Kat must ditch her steely discipline and surrender to the desire that threatens to take them both down .