1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910279589603321

Autore

Stepanova Eila

Titolo

Mythic Discourses

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Helsinki, : Finnish Literature Society / SKS, 2012

ISBN

952-222-376-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320)

Soggetti

Religion & beliefs

Other non-Christian religions

Social issues & processes

Sociology

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

"Mythic discourses in the present day show how vernacular heritage continues to function and be valuable through emergent interpretations and revaluations. At the same time, continuities in mythic images, motifs, myths and genres reveal the longue durée of mythologies and their transformations. The eighteen articles of Mythic Discourses address the many facets of myth in Uralic cultures, from the Finnish and Karelian world-creation to Nenets shamans, offering multidisciplinary perspectives from twenty eastern and western scholars.

The mythologies of Uralic peoples differ so considerably that mythology is approached here in a broad sense, including myths proper, religious beliefs and associated rituals. Traditions are addressed individually, typologically, and in historical perspective. The range and breadth of the articles, presenting diverse living mythologies, their histories and relationships to traditions of other cultures such as Germanic and Slavic, all come together to offer a far richer and more developed perspective on Uralic traditions than any one article could do alone."



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910454698903321

Titolo

Heredity produced [[electronic resource] ] : at the crossroads of biology, politics, and culture, 1500-1870 / / edited by Staffan Muller-Wille and Hans-Jorg Rheinberger

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge, Mass., : MIT Press, c2007

ISBN

0-262-29352-8

1-282-09866-7

9786612098666

0-262-28033-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (496 p.)

Collana

Transformations

Altri autori (Persone)

Müller-WilleStaffan <1964->

RheinbergerHans-Jörg

Disciplina

576.5

Soggetti

Heredity - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Preface; Introduction; Ch 1: Heredity-The Formation of an Epistemic Space; I Heredity in the Legal Context; Ch 2: From Clan to Kindred: Kinship and the Circulation of Property in Premodern and Modern Europe; Ch 3: Resemblance, Paternity, and Imagination in Early Modern Courts; Ch 4: Continuity and Death: Literature and the Law of Succession in the Nineteenth Century; II Heredity and Medicine; Ch 5: The Medical Origins of Heredity; Ch 6: Erasmus Darwin and the "Noble" Disease (Gout): Conceptualizing Heredity and Disease in Enlightenment England

Ch 7: Degeneration and "Alienism" in Early Nineteenth-Century FranceIII Natural History, Breeding, and Hybridization; Ch 8: Figures of Inheritance, 1650-1850; Ch 9: Duchesne's Strawberries: Between Growers' Practices and Academic Knowledge; Ch 10: The Sheep Breeders' View of Heredity Before and After 1800; IV Theories of Generation and Evolution; Ch 11: Speculation and Experiment in Enlightenment Life Sciences; Ch 12: Kant on Heredity and Adaptation; Ch 13: The Delayed Linkage of Heredity with the Cell Theory



Ch 14: On the Shoulders of Generations: The New Epistemology of Heredity in the Nineteenth CenturyV Anthropology; Ch 15: Las Castas: Interracial Crossing and Social Structure, 1770-1835; Ch 16: Acquired Character: The Hereditary Material of the "Self-Made Man"; Ch 17: "Victor, l'enfant de la forêt": Experiments on Heredity in Savage Children; Ch 18: Sui Generis: Heredity and Heritage of Genius at the Turn of the Eighteenth Century; Epilogue; Ch 19: The Heredity of Poetics; Contributors; Index