1.

Record Nr.

UNIORUON00007898

Autore

BASOGLU, Sylvia

Titolo

Anrede in turkischer Gegenwartsliterature : Eine sprachvergleichende Untersuchung turkischer Romane, Erzahlungen und Filme und ihrer deutschen Ubersetzungen / Sylvia Basoglu

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Frankfurt am Main, : Yvonne Landeck, 1987

ISBN

38-900201-2-7

Descrizione fisica

405 p. ; 23 cm

Classificazione

TUR II

Soggetti

LINGUA TURCA MODERNA

Lingua di pubblicazione

Tedesco

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910860893303321

Autore

Strang Veronica

Titolo

Water Beings : From Nature Worship to the Environmental Crisis

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Qu_bec City : , : Reaktion Books, Limited, , 2023

©2023

ISBN

9781789147506

9781789146882

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (281 pages)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Sommario/riassunto

Looking to the vast human history of water worship, a crucial study of



our broken relationship with all things aquatic--and how we might mend it. Early human relationships with water were expressed through beliefs in serpentine aquatic deities: rainbow-colored, feathered or horned serpents, giant anacondas, and dragons. Representing the powers of water, these beings were bringers of life and sustenance, world creators, ancestors, guardian spirits, and lawmakers. Worshipped and appeased, they embodied people's respect for water and its vital role in sustaining all living things. Yet today, though we still recognize that "water is life," fresh- and saltwater ecosystems have been critically compromised by human activities. This major study of water beings and what has happened to them in different cultural and historical contexts demonstrates how and why some--but not all--societies have moved from worshipping water to wreaking havoc upon it and asks what we can do to turn the tide.