Author: Evan M. Maurer
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 312
Book Description
Tabwa
The Bear
Author: Michel Pastoureau
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 9780674047822
Category : Animals and civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends. Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by Christianity and continued to sink lower in the symbolic bestiary before rising again in Pyrrhic triumph as the teddy bear.
Publisher: Belknap Press
ISBN: 9780674047822
Category : Animals and civilization
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
From antiquity to the Middle Ages, the bear's centrality in cults and mythologies left traces in European languages, literatures, and legends. Michel Pastoureau considers how this once venerated creature was deposed by Christianity and continued to sink lower in the symbolic bestiary before rising again in Pyrrhic triumph as the teddy bear.
The Native Mind and the Cultural Construction of Nature
Author: Scott Atran
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
An analysis of the cognitive consequences of diminished contact with nature examines the relationship between how people think about the natural world and how they act on it, and how these are affected by cultural differences.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN:
Category : Nature
Languages : en
Pages : 352
Book Description
An analysis of the cognitive consequences of diminished contact with nature examines the relationship between how people think about the natural world and how they act on it, and how these are affected by cultural differences.
Current Research in Egyptology
Author: Christelle Alvarez
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785703641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
The sixteenth Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference was held from the 15–18 April 2015 at the University of Oxford and once again provided a platform for postgraduates and early career Egyptologists, as well as independent researchers, to present their research. These proceedings for CREXVI represent the wide-range of themes that were offered by delegates during the conference. Papers focus on the theme of travel in ancient Egypt from a wide range of perspectives such as concrete or abstract travels, travel in space and time, travel inside, to, or from Egypt, travel in literature, travel of beliefs and ideas or travel of objects.
Publisher: Oxbow Books
ISBN: 1785703641
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 269
Book Description
The sixteenth Current Research in Egyptology (CRE) conference was held from the 15–18 April 2015 at the University of Oxford and once again provided a platform for postgraduates and early career Egyptologists, as well as independent researchers, to present their research. These proceedings for CREXVI represent the wide-range of themes that were offered by delegates during the conference. Papers focus on the theme of travel in ancient Egypt from a wide range of perspectives such as concrete or abstract travels, travel in space and time, travel inside, to, or from Egypt, travel in literature, travel of beliefs and ideas or travel of objects.
Belief in God
Author: Minot Judson Savage
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : God
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description