Download or read book Mordvinian Mythology written by Tatyana Devyatkina and published by Založba ZRC. This book was released on 2004-01-01 with total page 170 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Knjiga Mordvinian Mythology (Mordovinijska mitologija) je prva enciklopedična predstavitev mitoloških konceptov Mordvincev, ugrofinskega naroda, ki živi na ozemlju Ruske federacije. V uvodnem delu so predstavljeni Mordvinci kot narod, njihov položaj in kultura, posebej še kozmološke predstave, izražene v mitih, ritualih in jeziku, ter literatura o mordvinijski mitologiji. Osrednji del sestavljajo enciklopedični članki.

Download or read book Modern Mythology written by Andrew Lang and published by London : Longmans, Green. This book was released on 1897 with total page 254 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work by Andrew Lang discusses the state of mythology that was contemporary in his lifetime. Lang also uses anthropological evidence to enlighten his readers about the origins of mythology.

Download or read book Contributions to the Science of Mythology written by Friedrich Max Müller and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Multilingualism and Multiculturalism in Finno Ugric Literatures 2 written by Johanna Domokos and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018-09 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The present volume consists of articles dealing with a broad range of multilingual practices in Finno-Ugric literatures, in a variety of sociopolitical contexts from Central Europe to Western Siberia. Literature can strengthen the voices of minority communities, enhance the prestige of languages and encourage their creative use. Today's Finno-Ugric literatures give valuable insights into the everyday realities of multilingualism and cultural diversity, showing the performativity of cultures in multicultural and transcultural settings.

Download or read book Introducing the Mythological Crescent written by Harald Haarmann and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2008 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is a broad cultural region with related traditions of mythical beliefs interconnected by long-term contacts during prehistoric times. This area - called here the "Mythological Crescent" - is a zone of cultural convergence that extends from the ancient Middle East via Anatolia to southeastern Europe, opening into the wide cultural landscape of Eurasia.The very old interconnections between Eurasia and Anatolia are explored in this study for the first time. In a comparative view, striking similarities can be reconstructed for the ancient belief systems and the imagery of both regions which suggest convergent cosmological conceptualizations of high age. The beliefs and ritual practices of the indigenous peoples of Eurasia are rooted in the shamanism of the oldest cultural layers of the Palaeolithic. Although socioeconomic development in Anatolia was markedly different from cultural evolution in Eurasia, the hunters and gatherers in Anatolia who adopted sedentary lifeways did not entirely lose their ancient beliefs during the transition to plant cultivation (in the eighth millennium BCE). Archaic beliefs and imagery fused with new practices and innovations during the development of agrarian societies. One diagnostic motif which was perpetuated from the Palaeolithic to the Neolithic and beyond is represented by the production of female figurines (statuettes). Their significance for communal life has been linked to spiritual concepts of the continuity of life, the vegetation cycle, and the protection of the natural habitat of all living things as recorded in myths and historical folk art of Uralic and other peoples. The bear plays a significant role as a mythical animal in the imagery of Eurasia whereas this motif was lost in Anatolia during the transition from antiquity to the Middle Ages.

Download or read book Finno Ugric Siberian mythology written by Uno Harva and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 878 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Mythology of All Races written by Louis Herbert Gray and published by . This book was released on 1927 with total page 876 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Folklore written by Joseph Jacobs and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 486 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.

Download or read book Publications written by Folklore Society (Great Britain) and published by . This book was released on 1897 with total page 474 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Archaeological Approaches to Shamanism written by Dragoş Gheorghiu and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2018-04-18 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This long awaited book discusses both ancient and modern shamanism, demonstrating its longevity and spatial distribution. The book is divided into eleven thought-provoking chapters that are organised into three sections: mind-body, nature, and culture. It discusses the clear associations with this sometimes little-understood ritualised practice, and asks what shamanism is and if tangible evidence can be extracted from a largely fragmentary archaeological record. The book offers a novel portrayal of the material culture of shamanism by collating carefully selected studies by specialists from three different continents, promoting a series of new perspectives on this idiosyncratic and sometimes intangible phenomenon.

Download or read book Library of Congress Subject Headings written by Library of Congress. Cataloging Policy and Support Office and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 1606 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Download or read book Foundations of Culture written by Harald Haarmann and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2007 with total page 318 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Constructing culture means constructing knowledge and making it operational for the benefit of sustained community life. As a cognitive process, knowledge-construction does not evolve in a vacuum but rather interacts with belief systems and worldview. Cultural knowledge is modulated by key factors such as time (linear versus non-linear), conceptions of reality (physical, imagined, virtual), identity, and intentionality. The critical investigation and comparison of cultures in space and time call for a revision of several concepts. These include utility (as the maxim of modern Euro-American society), prototype (as an allegedly unified concept of culture evolution), and replacement (as a generalizing signifier for the exchange of old items for new ones). The working of cultural memory is understood as the storage capacity of items of knowledge (relating to the past, present and future) according to parameters of experienced rather than absolute time. This study discusses a wide selection of the variables shaping the foundations and fabric of culture, starting with the human capacities for symbol-making and using sign systems. The impact of knowledge-construction on the culture process is articulated in 30 postulates concerning the dynamics of communal life and patterns of sustenance, the relationship between the natural environment and cultural space, and the life cycle of cultures.

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