Maps, Myths, and Men - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Maps, Myths, and Men write by Kirsten A. Seaver. This book was released on 2004. Maps, Myths, and Men available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The "Vínland Map" first surfaced on the antiquarian market in 1957 and the map's authenticity has been hotly debated ever sincein controversies ranging from the anomalous composition of the ink and the map's lack of provenance to a plethora of historical and cartographical riddles. Maps, Myths, and Men is the first work to address the full range of this debate. Focusing closely on what the map in fact shows, the book contains a critique of the 1965 work The Vinland Map and the Tartar Relation; scrutinizes the marketing strategies used in 1957; and covers many aspects of the map that demonstrate it is a modern fake, such as literary evidence and several scientific ink analyses performed between 1967 and 2002. The author explains a number of the riddles and provides evidence for both the identity of the mapmaker and the source of the parchment used, and she applies current knowledge of medieval Norse culture and exploration to counter widespread misinformation about Norse voyages to North America and about the Norse world picture.
Myths of the Dog-Man
Myths of the Dog-Man - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myths of the Dog-Man write by David Gordon White. This book was released on 1991-05-07. Myths of the Dog-Man available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An impressive and important cross-cultural study that has vast implications for history, religion, anthropology, folklore, and other fields. . . . Remarkably wide-ranging and extremely well-documented, it covers (among much else) the following: medieval Christian legends such as the 14th-century Ethiopian Gadla Hawaryat (Contendings of the Apostles) that had their roots in Parthian Gnosticism and Manichaeism; dog-stars (especially Sirius), dog-days, and canine psychopomps in the ancient and Hellenistic world; the cynocephalic hordes of the ancient geographers; the legend of Prester John; Visvamitra and the Svapacas ("Dog-Cookers"); the Dog Rong ("warlike barbarians") during the Xia, Shang, and Zhou periods; the nochoy ghajar (Mongolian for "Dog Country") of the Khitans; the Panju myth of the Southern Man and Yao "barbarians" from chapter 116 of the History of the Latter Han and variants in a series of later texts; and the importance of dogs in ancient Chinese burial rites. . . . Extremely well-researched and highly significant."—Victor H. Mair, Asian Folklore Studies
The Phantom Atlas
The Phantom Atlas - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Phantom Atlas write by Edward Brooke-Hitching. This book was released on 2018-04-03. The Phantom Atlas available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Discover the mysteries within ancient maps — Where exploration and mythology meet This richly illustrated book collects and explores the colorful histories behind a striking range of real antique maps that are all in some way a little too good to be true. Mysteries within ancient maps: The Phantom Atlas is a guide to the world not as it is, but as it was imagined to be. It's a world of ghost islands, invisible mountain ranges, mythical civilizations, ship-wrecking beasts, and other fictitious features introduced on maps and atlases through mistakes, misunderstanding, fantasies, and outright lies. Where exploration and mythology meet: Author Edward Brooke-Hitching is a map collector, author, writer for the popular BBC Television program QI and a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. He lives in a dusty heap of old maps and books in London investigating the places where exploration and mythology meet. Cartography’s greatest phantoms: The Phantom Atlas uses gorgeous atlas images as springboards for tales of deranged buccaneers, seafaring monks, heroes, swindlers, and other amazing stories behind cartography's greatest phantoms. If you are a fan of this popular genre and a reader of books such as Prisoners of Geography, Atlas of Ancient Rome, Atlas Obscura, What If, Book of General Ignorance, or Thing Explainer, your will love The Phantom Atlas
Myths Maps & Men: Merrill Lynch Salutes the Year of the Moon
Myths Maps & Men: Merrill Lynch Salutes the Year of the Moon - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Myths Maps & Men: Merrill Lynch Salutes the Year of the Moon write by Michael Ramus. This book was released on 2013. Myths Maps & Men: Merrill Lynch Salutes the Year of the Moon available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Masculinity in Crisis
Masculinity in Crisis - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Masculinity in Crisis write by R. Horrocks. This book was released on 1994-08-30. Masculinity in Crisis available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book argues that masculine identity is in deep crisis in Western culture - the old forms are disintegrating, while men struggle to establish new relations with women and with each other. This book offers a fresh look at gender, particularly masculinity, by using material from the author's work as a psychotherapist. The book also considers the contrubtions made by feminism, sociology and anthropology to the study of gender, and suggests that it must be studied from an interdisciplinary standpoint. Masculity is seen to have economic, political and psychological roots, but the concrete development of gender must be traced in the relations of the male infant with his parents. Here the young boy has to separate from his mother, and his own proto-feminine identity, and identify with his father - but in Western culture fathering is often deficient. Male identity is shown to be fractured, fragile and truncated. Men are trained to be rational and violent, and to shut out whole areas of existence and feeling. Many stereotypes imprison men - particularly machismo, which is shown to be deeply masochistic and self-destructive.
