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Product Description: For many people, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evokes images of deserts, camels, and oil, along with rich sheikh in white robes, oppressed women in black veils, and terrorists. But when Loring Danforth traveled through the country in 2012, he found a world much more complex and inspiring than he could have ever imagined...read more
Hardcover:
9780520290280 | Univ of California Pr, March 29, 2016, cover price $65.00
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9780520290273 | Univ of California Pr, March 29, 2016, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: For many people, the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia evokes images of deserts, camels, and oil, along with rich sheikh in white robes, oppressed women in black veils, and terrorists.
Product Description: Some, like the Tasmanian tiger, are considered extinct--yet sightings are still reported. Some, like the giant squid, existed only as rumors until hard evidence finally appeared. And then there are the others, who roam a shadowy realm between myth, hucksterism and science--for example, Bigfoot and the Loch Ness Monster...read more
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9783905770070 | Jrp Editions, December 1, 2006, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Some, like the Tasmanian tiger, are considered extinct--yet sightings are still reported.
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Hardcover:
9780691043579 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1995, cover price $39.50
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9780691043562 | Reprint edition (Princeton Univ Pr, March 17, 1997), cover price $46.00
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9780691094540 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1989, cover price $57.50 | About this edition: Contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing, and discusses the social role of both rituals
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9780691028538 | Princeton Univ Pr, November 1, 1989, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing, and discusses the social role of both rituals
This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village--the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and especially the rite of exhumation. These rituals help Greek villagers face the universal paradox of mourning: how can the living sustain relationships with the dead and at the same time bring them to an end, in order to continue to live meaningfully as members of a community? That is the villagers' dilemma, and our own. Thirty-one moving photographs (reproduced in duotone to do justice to their great beauty) combine with vivid descriptions of the bereaved women of "Potamia" and with the words of the funeral laments to allow the reader an unusual emotional identification with the people of rural Greece as they struggle to integrate the experience of death into their daily lives. Loring M. Danforth's sensitive use of symbolic and structural analysis complements his discussion of the social context in which these rituals occur. He explores important themes in rural Greek life, such as the position of women, patterns of reciprocity and obligation, and the nature of social relations within the family.
Hardcover:
9780691031323 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1982, cover price $60.00
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9780691000275 | Princeton Univ Pr, December 1, 1982, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village--the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and especially the rite of exhumation.
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