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Parasites, worms, and the human body in religion and culture
- Title
- Parasites, worms, and the human body in religion and culture / edited by Brenda Gardenour and Misha Tadd.
- Publication
- New York : Peter Lang, ©2012.
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| Status | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
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| Text | Use in library | RC119 .P347 2012 | Off-site |
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- Description
- xxxvi, 217 p. : ill.; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Parasitic diseases > Social aspects
- Parasites > Psychological aspects
- Worms > Psychological aspects
- Human body > Religious aspects
- Religion and culture
- Anthropology > Comparative method
- Parasites
- Annelida
- Culture
- Religion
- Ethnology
- Parasites
- Annelida
- Parasitic Diseases > psychology
- Human Body
- Culture
- Religion
- Anthropology, Cultural
- Ethnology
- culture note
- religion (discipline)
- ethnology
- social anthropology
- culture (concept)
- Human body > Religious aspects
- Parasitic diseases > Social aspects
- Religion and culture
- Kultur
- Parasit
- Würmer
- Symbol
- Körper
- Anthropologie
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Contents
- The power of parasites and worms / Misha Tadd -- Serpents and sanitation : a biocultural survey of snake worship, cultural adaptation, and parasitic disease in ancient and modern India / Lesley Jo Weaver and Amber R. Campbell Hibbs -- Worms and the corporal body in India : an examination in Hindu literary traditions / Levanya Vemsani -- The wasp and the worm : getting inside the body of the sage / Mark G. Pitner -- A snake in a basin and a worm in the flesh : external serpents, internal worms, and authority over the body in the Legenda Aurea of Jacob de Voragine / Brenda S. Gardenour -- Reading the wormy corpus : ambiguity and discernment in the lives of medieval saints / Alison More -- Some considerations regarding the origins and functions of parasites among two Mbya communities in Misiones, Argentina / Marta Crivos, et al. -- Parasites and the postcolonial : Williams Sassine's Saint Monsieur Baly / Charlotte Baker -- Worms politic : parasitism, textual decay and conjure truth in Gloria Naylor's Moma Day / Amy M. Thomas -- Invasion as affliction : worms and bodily infestation in African American Hoodoo practices / Yvonne Chireau -- We are what we don't eat : worms, bacteria, and the soil around us / Todd LeVasseur -- Inside/out : the body under attack in American popular culture / Julien R. Fielding.
- ISBN
- 9781433115479
- 1433115476
- 9781453902639
- 1453902635
- LCCN
- 2011043817
- OCLC
- ocn760972687
- 760972687
- SCSB-1641000
- Owning Institutions
- Princeton University Library