1.

Record Nr.

UNICAMPANIASUN0009239

Autore

Cassarino, Sebastiano

Titolo

1: I presupposti : 1983-1998 / Sebastiano Cassarino

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Milano : Giuffrè, 1999

ISBN

88-14-07945-5

Descrizione fisica

VI, 258 p. ; 25 cm.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Italiano

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910404081103321

Autore

Montesano Marina

Titolo

Witchcraft, Demonology and Magic

Pubbl/distr/stampa

MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute, 2020

ISBN

3-03928-960-8

Descrizione fisica

1 electronic resource (160 p.)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Witchcraft and magic are topics of enduring interest for many reasons. The main one lies in their extraordinary interdisciplinarity: anthropologists, folklorists, historians, and more have contributed to build a body of work of extreme variety and consistence. Of course, this also means that the subjects themselves are not easy to assess. In a very general way, we can define witchcraft as a supernatural means to cause harm, death, or misfortune, while magic also belongs to the field of supernatural, or at least esoteric knowledge, but can be used to less



dangerous effects (e.g., divination and astrology). In Western civilization, however, the witch hunt has set a very peculiar perspective in which diabolical witchcraft, the invention of the Sabbat, the persecution of many thousands of (mostly) female and (sometimes) male presumed witches gave way to a phenomenon that is fundamentally different from traditional witchcraft. This Special Issue of Religions dedicated to Witchcraft, Demonology, and Magic features nine articles that deal with four different regions of Europe (England, Germany, Hungary, and Italy) between Late Medieval and Modern times in different contexts and social milieus. Far from pretending to offer a complete picture, they focus on some topics that are central to the research in those fields and fit well in the current “cumulative concept of Western witchcraft” that rules out all mono-causality theories, investigating a plurality of causes.

3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783311503321

Autore

Leong Karen J. <1968->

Titolo

The China mystique [[electronic resource] ] : Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, Mayling Soong, and the transformation of American Orientalism / / Karen J. Leong

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, 2005

ISBN

0-520-93863-1

1-59875-544-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (263 p.)

Disciplina

305.48/8951073/0922

Soggetti

International relations

United States Relations China

China Relations United States

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

Front  matter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- 1. Gendering American Orientalism -- 2. Pearl Sydenstricker Buck -- 3. Anna May Wong -- 4. Mayling Soong -- 5. Transforming American National Identity- The China Mystique -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Acknowledgments --



Index

Sommario/riassunto

Throughout the history of the United States, images of China have populated the American imagination. Always in flux, these images shift rapidly, as they did during the early decades of the twentieth century. In this erudite and original study, Karen J. Leong explores the gendering of American orientalism during the 1930's and 1940's. Focusing on three women who were popularly and publicly associated with China-Pearl S. Buck, Anna May Wong, and Mayling Soong-Leong shows how each negotiated what it meant to be American, Chinese American, and Chinese against the backdrop of changes in the United States as a national community and as an international power. The China Mystique illustrates how each of these women encountered the possibilities as well as the limitations of transnational status in attempting to shape her own opportunities. During these two decades, each woman enjoyed expanding visibility due to an increasingly global mass culture, rising nationalism in Asia, the emergence of the United States from the shadows of imperialism to world power, and the more assertive participation of women in civic and consumer culture.