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2021.10.25.

Man-Eating Monsters : Anthropocentrism and Popular Culture

What role do man-eating monsters – vampires, zombies, werewolves and cannibals – play in contemporary culture? This book explores the question of whether recent representations of humans as food in popular culture characterizes a unique moment in Western cultural history and suggests a new set of attitudes toward people, monsters, animals, and death. This volume analyzes how previous epochs represented man-eating monsters and cannibalism.

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2019.10.18.

Books That Cook : The Making of a Literary Meal

Whether a five-star chef or beginning home cook, any gourmand knows that recipes are far more than a set of instructions on how to make a dish. They are culture-keepers as well as culture-makers, both recording memories and fostering new ones.Organized like a cookbook, Books That Cook: The Making of a Literary Meal is a collection of American literature written on the theme of food: from an invocation to a final toast, from starters to desserts.

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2018.04.25.

My Life as a Night Elf Priest : An Anthropological Account of World of Warcraft

What is World of warcraft and who plays it? World of Warcraft is a massively multiplayer, online role-playing game (MMORPG) that has gained iconic status in recent years. Bonnie Nardi, an anthropologist, conducts an ethnological study of World of Warcrafi and how it relates to play. In this book there is a very brief introduction to the World of Warcraft and the author’s reasons for choosing to study the virtual world it creates.

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2017.07.27.

Past Scents : Historical Perspectives on Smell

In this comprehensive and engaging volume, medical historian Jonathan Reinarz offers a historiography of smell from ancient to modern times. Synthesizing existing scholarship in the field, he shows how people have relied on their olfactory sense to understand and engage with both their immediate environments and wider corporal and spiritual worlds. This broad survey demonstrates how each community or commodity possesses, or has been thought to possess, its own peculiar scent.

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