Ecstasies: Deciphering the Witches' SabbathWeaving early accounts of witchcraft—trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography—into new and startling patterns, Carlo Ginzburg presents in Ecstasies compelling evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across Europe and in England for thousands of years. |
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... Lévi - Strauss ) has dwelt on the theme of mythical and ritual lameness , observing that its enormous geographical distribution seems to imply an extremely remote , and hence unverifiable , genesis ( the Paleolithic age ) - whence , as ...
... Lévi - Strauss ) has dwelt on the theme of mythical and ritual lameness , observing that its enormous geographical distribution seems to imply an extremely remote , and hence unverifiable , genesis ( the Paleolithic age ) - whence , as ...
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... Lévi - Strauss - conjoint synchronic and comparative analysis of trans - cultural phenomena - raises , as we shall see , objections of principle and of fact . But is a choice between alternatives which involve , respectively ...
... Lévi - Strauss - conjoint synchronic and comparative analysis of trans - cultural phenomena - raises , as we shall see , objections of principle and of fact . But is a choice between alternatives which involve , respectively ...
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... Lévi - Strauss , and that of ' phoneme ' on which it was patterned , clearly indicates that derivation of conceptual models from linguistics is insufficient to attain its rigour.75 Both the phonological system of a dead language ( or ...
... Lévi - Strauss , and that of ' phoneme ' on which it was patterned , clearly indicates that derivation of conceptual models from linguistics is insufficient to attain its rigour.75 Both the phonological system of a dead language ( or ...
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... Lévi - Strauss ' synchronic focus implies an aggressively anti - historical attitude , is superficial . Initially , echoing a famous sentence of Marx's , Levi - Strauss had assigned to the historian the sphere of conscious- ness ( ' Men ...
... Lévi - Strauss ' synchronic focus implies an aggressively anti - historical attitude , is superficial . Initially , echoing a famous sentence of Marx's , Levi - Strauss had assigned to the historian the sphere of conscious- ness ( ' Men ...
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... Lévi- Strauss and the book I have written would appear to be very strong . But the divergences are equally important . The first consists in rejection of the limited and marginal function accorded historiography by Lévi - Strauss : viz ...
... Lévi- Strauss and the book I have written would appear to be very strong . But the divergences are equally important . The first consists in rejection of the limited and marginal function accorded historiography by Lévi - Strauss : viz ...
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