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This book provides an exploration of the historical conditions that gradually defined subordinating symbols and conflictual values in social relations between the sexes. It reveals how snakes and the gelid eyes of Medusa--the archetypical snake-woman--have reverberated across the visual arts and written sources throughout the ages in association with negative emotions: fear, anger, scorn and shame.The outcomes and implications of the disturbing correlation between the dangerous female gaze, the malignitas of the snake and the lethal power of menstruation that have been woven through the fabric of the Western imaginary are analysed here. This analysis reveals an intriguing history of female reptilian hybrids--from the pleasing Minoan snake goddesses to the depressing Gorgon, Echidna, Amazons, Eve, Melusine, Basilisk, Poison-Damsel, Catoblepas and Sadako/Samara--and gives the reader an opportunity to explore things that never happened but have always been.

Medusa (Greek mythology) --- Women --- Serpents --- Mythology. --- Medusa

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Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America / Aby M. Warburg -- Aby Warburg's Kreuzlingen Lecture: A Reading / Michael P. Steinberg. Aby M. Warburg (1866-1929) is recognized not only as one of the century's preeminent art and Renaissance historians but also as a founder of twentieth-century methods in iconology and cultural studies in general. Warburg's 1923 lecture, first published in German in 1988 and now available for the first time in English translation, Michael Steinberg offers offers at once a window on his career, a formative statement of his cultural history of modernity, and a document in the ethnography of the American Southwest. This edition includes thirty-nine photographs, many of them originally presented as slides with the speech, and a rich interpretive essay by the translator. Images from the Region of the Pueblo Indians of North America translates Warburg's seminal study of the "serpent ritual" of the Hopi people, which grew out of a trip to the American Southwest undertaken by Warburg in 1895-1896.

Pueblo Indians --- Serpent worship. --- Religion. --- Snake worship --- Animal worship --- Serpents --- Religious aspects --- Hopi --- Native Americans --- serpent worship --- American southwest --- ethnography --- photography

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Beasts of the Deep: Sea Creatures and Popular Culture offers its readers an in-depth and interdisciplinary engagement with the sea and its monstrous inhabitants; through critical readings of folklore, weird fiction, film, music, radio and digital games. Within the text there are a multitude of convergent critical perspectives used to engage and explore fictional and real monsters of the sea in media and folklore. The collection features chapters from a variety of academic perspectives; post- modernism, psychoanalysis, industrial-organisational analysis, fandom studies, sociology and philosophy are featured. Under examination are a wide range of narratives and media forms that represent, reimagine and create the Kraken, mermaids, giant sharks, sea draugrs and even the weird creatures of H.P. Lovecraft. Beasts of the Deep offers an expansive study of our sea-born fears and anxieties, that are crystallised in a variety of monstrous forms. Repeatedly the chapters in the collection encounter the contemporary relevance of our fears of the sea and its inhabitants -- through the dehumanising media depictions of refugees in the Mediterranean to the encroaching ecological disasters of global warming, pollution and the threat of mass marine extinction.

Popular culture. --- Marine animals. --- Sea monsters. --- Sea serpents --- Animals, Mythical --- Marine animals --- Monsters --- Ocean --- Serpents --- Marine fauna --- Ocean animals --- Sea animals --- Aquatic animals --- Marine organisms --- Culture, Popular --- Mass culture --- Pop culture --- Popular arts --- Communication --- Intellectual life --- Mass society --- Recreation --- Culture --- Mythology

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Poisonous snakes --- Venom --- Venomous snakes --- Vipers --- Poisonous animals --- Snakes --- Serps --- Verins animals --- Antídots --- Índia --- Verins --- Antitoxines --- Animals verinosos --- Ofidis --- Ophidia --- Serpentes --- Serpents --- Rèptils --- Colúbrids --- Vipèrids --- Bharat --- República de la India --- República de l'Índia --- Àsia del Sud --- Ajantha (Índia) --- Assam (Índia : Estat) --- Brahmaputra (Àsia : Curs d'aigua) --- Calcuta (Índia) --- Delhi (Índia) --- Kodagu (Índia : Regió) --- Goa (Índia : Estat) --- Jammu i Caixmir (Índia : Estat) --- Kerala (Índia : Estat) --- Madràs (Índia) --- Madhya Pradesh (Índia : Estat) --- Maharashtra (Índia : Estat) --- Orissa (Índia : Estat) --- Panjab (Índia : Estat) --- Rajasthan (Índia : Estat) --- Uttar Pradesh (Índia : Estat) --- Caixmir (Àsia : Regió)