Sacred Wood
Sacred Wood

Author: Ruta Saliklis

Publisher: Chazen Museum of Art

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 64

ISBN-13: 9780932900432

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Lithuanian carvings produced under Soviet occupation during the 1970s and 1980s reflect mythic folk themes, coded Christian iconography, satire, and themes of national identity. Distributed for the Chazen Museum of Art, University of Wisconsin-Madison

Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines
Encyclopedia of Goddesses and Heroines

Author: Patricia Monaghan, PhD

Publisher: New World Library

Published: 2014-04-01

Total Pages: 450

ISBN-13: 1608682188

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More Than 1,000 Goddesses & Heroines from around the World Groundbreaking scholar Patricia Monaghan spent her life researching, writing about, and documenting goddesses and heroines from all religions and all corners of the globe. Her work demonstrated that from the beginning of recorded history, goddesses reigned alongside their male counterparts as figures of inspiration and awe. Drawing on anthropology, folklore, literature, and psychology, Monaghan’s vibrant and accessible encyclopedia covers female deities from Africa, the eastern Mediterranean, Asia and Oceania, Europe, and the Americas, as well as every major religious tradition.

The Raw and the Cooked
The Raw and the Cooked

Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1983-03-15

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13: 9780226474878

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"Lévi-Strauss is a French savant par excellence, a man of extraordinary sensitivity and human wisdom . . . a deliberate stylist with profound convictions and convincing arguments. . . . [The Raw and the Cooked] adds yet another chapter to the tireless quest for a scientifically accurate, esthetically viable, and philosophically relevant cultural anthropology. . . . [It is] indispensable reading."—Natural History

Greek and Interbehavioral Psychology
Greek and Interbehavioral Psychology

Author: Noel W. Smith

Publisher: University Press of America

Published: 1993

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780819193315

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In this book, the author uses a selection of twenty-six of his papers in which he sets forth both interbehavioral psychology and Hellenic Greek psychology together with psychological concepts of hunter-gatherers, Egyptians, and Indo-Europeans. Contents: I. Introduction. II. Pre-Greek, Greek, and Indian Psychology. III. Interbehavioral Psychology: General Framework; Special Topics; Studies Concerning the Founder of Interbehavioral Psychology; Tribute; Selected Bibliography.

Art of the Baltics
Art of the Baltics

Author: Alla Rosenfeld

Publisher: Rutgers University Press

Published: 2002

Total Pages: 502

ISBN-13: 9780813530420

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The Norton and Nancy Dodge Collection of Nonconformist Art from the Soviet Union, 1956-1986, which comprises nearly twenty thousand works, is part of the Jane Voorhees Zimmerli Art Museum at Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New Jersey.