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Deicide in Ch’orti’ Maya Myth and Ritual
Among the Ch’orti’ Maya, turkeys are associated with ritual sacrifice and deicide. In this study, I discuss the intimate links between the turkey and...
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Blood Tribute, Earth Offerings, and the Formative Origins of Ritual Human Sacrifice in Mesoamerica
Mesoamerica has long been identified with a range of ritualized practices or ritual diversity centered on both animal and human sacrifices. In...
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Ritual Human Sacrifice Among the Tarascans of West Mexico
This chapter reports on evidence of large-scale ritual violence recovered at Tzintzuntzan, Michoacán, the Postclassic (1300–1522 A.D.) Tarascan civic...
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The Myth of the Willing Human Sacrificial Victim: The Complex Nature of Human Sacrifice in Aztec Ceremonialism
Mesoamerican scholarship is a collaborative effort that consistently delivers fresh theoretical interpretations based on new findings, but on...
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Indigenous Sacrifice in the Christian Language Among the Communities of the Northern Mixteca of Oaxaca, Mexico
Traditions of human sacrifice among the peoples of the Northern Mixteca survived the Spanish Conquest. The Postclassic period’s emphasis on warrior...
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‘Rending the Veil of Mortal Frailty’: Queen Mab (1813)
This chapter, focusing on Queen Mab (1813), arguesShelley, Percy Bysshe that Shelley’s early vision of death is informed by a distinct amalgam of...
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‘While Yet a Boy I Sought for Ghosts’: Contexts
This introductory, contextualising chapter provides close readings of Shelley’s youthful writings on death, including ‘To St Irvyne’ (1810), ‘How...
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From Medieval Utopia to Modern Dystopia
The rich vocabulary of medieval Islamic apocalyptic and eschatological compilations is familiar to modern Arab writers, yet influenced by modern...
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Techno-naturans vs. Terraforming. The Technique-Nature Relationship in Ernst Bloch, Gilles Deleuze, and Benjamin Bratton
Vis-à-vis the technocratic and productivist notion of technology implemented by hegemonic modernity, the materialism of Ernst Bloch, Gilles Deleuze,...
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Sumak Kawsay as Decolonial Post-utopia
The search for alternatives to development and beyond has become increasingly more frequent, especially in the face of the avalanche of evidence that...
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Challenging Dystopia with Laughter: Yan Lianke’s Inversion of Political Slogans in Serve the People!
While dystopian literature tends to be dark and ominous, Yan Lianke’s (b.1958) numerous satires of revolutionary politics and corruption in the...
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From Modern Feminist Utopias to Feminist Post-utopia: Biopolitics and Women’s Emancipation
The fundamental principle of modernity on which the utopian stories of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries are based, biopolitics as an...
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Between Utopia and Reality (Modern Transhumanism Theories and Posthumanism)
Trans- and post-humanism associate the realization of their ideas with the development of modern technologies and especially convergent (NBICS)...
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Post-apocalyptic Critical Dystopias: Killing the Minotaur in the Labyrinth
Contemporary series of books and movies for teenagers and young adults, such as The Giver by Lois Lowry, The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau, The...
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Spain, Munich, Auschwitz: The Role of Historical Analogies in the Protest Movements in Europe Against the War in Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992–1995
The war in Bosnia and Herzegovina between 1992 and 1995 led to an important and multifaceted civil society mobilization throughout Europe. Historical...
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Constructing the History of Working-Class Neighbourhoods: Communicative and Cognitive Reference to the Past in Conflicts Over Urban Redevelopment in West-German Cities in the 1970s and 1980s
This article analyses how activists turned memories and history into a resource in conflicts over urban redevelopment during the 1970s and 1980s. It...
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Conclusion: Lear’s Shadow, Office Today
Distributions of power are primarily maintained not through force, but through culture. The ‘absorptive capacities’ of Auschwitz would not have been...
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Language, Settings, and Networks for Early Modern Private Conversations
This chapter introduces the research area by proposing the angle of privacy to analyse the subject of everyday conversations in early modern Europe....
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An Agenda-Setting History
Following the survey of the book and the main historical stages of the history of the human sciences in the modern university outlined in the preface...