Just over half a century ago, the rise in what became known as the "performance turn" in folklore studies led to the diffusion of performance as both a lens and a key concept across a wide range of humanistic disciplines. Now, it's time to take stock of the myriad ways in which performance and folklore studies have developed along both parallel and intersecting paths.Emerging Perspectives in the Study of Folklore and Performance reveals the captivating world where folklore...

Proposes a methodology for incorporating concepts drawn from ancestor trance in Afrolatinx ritual for actors trained in Western methods. Danowski created four new works of theatrical performance, writing the play texts, and incorporating acting exercises from Afrolatinx rituals adapted for non–practitioners. Working toward a phenomenological understanding of what is happening when a performer incorporates a character, drawing on the ritual knowledge of trance possession in Lukumí and Palo ...

Tarot in Culture is a well illustrated (260 illus.) two-volume multi-author anthology of papers on Tarot. This ebook is Volume Two (169 illus.) Contributions to Volumes One and Two range from original, in-depth, thoroughly documented studies of Tarot history, art, and literature to artists' statements and other primary source documents. Tarot in Culture is both accessible to the Tarot student and of interest to scholars of other fields, including historia...

The Routledge Course in Japanese Translation brings together for the first time material dedicated to the theory and practice of translation to and from Japanese.This one semester advanced course in Japanese translation is designed to raise awareness of the many considerations that must be taken into account when translating a text. As students progress through the course they will acquire various tools to deal with the common problems typically involved in the practice of...

Taking the reader into the heart of one of the fastest-growing religious movements in North America, Sabina Magliocco reveals how the disciplines of anthropology and folklore were fundamental to the early development of Neo-Paganism and the revival of witchcraft. Magliocco examines the roots that this religious movement has in a Western spiritual tradition of mysticism disavowed by the Enlightenment. She explores, too, how modern Pagans and Witches are imaginatively reclaiming discarded pr...

The UK's 1st Bariatric Cookery Book 'Return to Slender' has been written specifically to help those who are considering or who have undergone weight-loss surgery. Written by Carol Bowen Ball, a gastric bypass patient herself and prolific food writer, it has been developed to nourish, feed and inspire those whose diet now has to make every bite count!Packed full of practical advice on stocking up with the best ingredients; tips on food preparation, cooking and serving; WLS savvy on f...

Pleasure Dome (Artists Film Exhibition Group of Ontario) is pleased to announce the launch of its very first e-book, Imagining Futures of Experimental Media (2023), published in collaboration with the National Indigenous Media Arts Coalition and OddSide Arts. Edited by Aaditya Aggarwal, Elida Schogt, and Fan Wu and featuring contributions by artists and writers, this digital publication was made possible through the Canada Council of the Arts Strategic Funds & Initiatives: Digital Now Gran...

In Walking with Spirits, I share my process for connecting and working with spirits that enables you to get consistent results, while building collaborative relationships with the spirits you work with.Working with spirits doesn’t have to involve the coercion of spirits that you find in conventional approaches to spirit work. What I share is an alternative approach that enables you to develop a friendly relationship with the spirits you work with and allows you to get results. Inst...

In 1992 Smithsonian anthropologist Michael Atwood Mason traveled to Cuba for initiation as a priest into the Santería religion. Since then he has created an active oricha “house” and has initiated five others as priests. He is a rare combination: a scholar-practitioner who is equally fluent in his profession and his religion. Interweaving his roles as researcher and priest, Mason explores Santería as a contemporary phenomenon and offers an understanding of its complexity through his own ex...

Does art connect the individual psyche to history and culture?Psyche and the Arts challenges existing ideas about the relationship between Jung and art, and offers exciting new dimensions to key issues such as the role of image in popular culture, and the division of psyche and matter in art form.Divided into three sections - Getting into Art, Challenging the Critical Space and Interpreting Art in the World - the text shows how Jungian ideas can w...

The study of listening—aurality—and its relation to writing is the subject of this eclectic edited volume. Theorizing Sound Writing explores the relationship between sound, theory, language, and inscription. This volume contains an impressive lineup of scholars from anthropology, ethnomusicology, musicology, performance, and sound studies. The contributors write about sound in their ongoing work, while also making an intervention into the ethics of academic knowledge, one in which listenin...

How to Write the Best Essay of Your Life is based on a simple idea: your best essay means not only the highest grade, but also the easiest, least stressful writing process possible. You can have it all: the best results with less stress and less time.How? By putting an emphasis on thought over style. With this guide for university and college students, you'll learn how to beat procrastination and craft a thorough and engaging paper in as little time as possible. That's the dream- an...