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Fierce Feminine Divinities of Eurasia and Latin America : Baba Yaga, Kālī, Pombagira, and Santa Muerte / by Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Oleszkiewicz-Peralba, Małgorzata., Author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Culture--Study and teaching.
- Culture.
- Ethnology.
- Communication.
- Ethnology--Europe.
- Ethnology--Latin America.
- Cultural Theory.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Media and Communication.
- European Culture.
- Latino Culture.
- Cultural Studies.
- Local Subjects:
- Cultural Theory.
- Sociocultural Anthropology.
- Media and Communication.
- European Culture.
- Latino Culture.
- Cultural Studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (205 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed. 2015.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Palgrave Macmillan US : Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- In this provocative book, Małgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines untamed feminine divinities from around the world. Although distant geographically, these divine figures are surprisingly similar-representing concepts of liminality, outsiderhood, and structural inferiority, embodied in the divine feminine. These strong, independent, unrestrained figures are connected to the periphery and to magical powers, including power over sexuality, transformation, and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba offers a study of the origin and worship of four feminine deities across cultures and continents: the Slavic Baba Yaga, the Hindu Kālī, the Brazilian Pombagira, and the Mexican Santa Muerte. Although these divinities have often been marginalized through dismissal, demonization, and dulcification, they continue to be extremely attractive, as they empower their devotees confronting them with the ultimate reality of transience and death. Oleszkiewicz-Peralba examines how these sacred icons have been adaptedand transformed across time and place.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note:
- Introduction PART I: EURASIA 1. Baba Yaga, the Witch from Slavic Fairy Tales 2. Kālī, the Ultimate Fierce Feminine PART II: LATIN AMERICA 3. Pombagira, the Holy Streetwalker 4. Santa Muerte, Death the Protector Conclusion.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781137535009
- 1137535008
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