Myth Resources: a Database of All Things Mythological
Human Relations Area Files (HRAF) is internationally recognized in the field of cultural anthropology. Founded in 1949 at Yale University, HRAF is a membership-supported nonprofit organization comprised of universities, colleges, and research institutions. Its...
Publications: Books / Sarah Lawrence Reading List
“Unique and important . . . Patterns of Culture is a signpost on the road to a freer and more tolerant life.” — New York Times A remarkable introduction to cultural studies, Patterns of...
Publications: Books / Sarah Lawrence Reading List
This volume is a collection of the most important essays written by Franz Boas on the science of anthropology. “Franz Boas is the father of American anthropology and one of the founders of the...
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In Afrolatinx religious practices such as Cuban Espiritismo, Puerto Rican Santería, and Brazilian Candomblé, the dead tell stories. Communicating with and through mediums’ bodies, they give advice, make requests, and propose future rituals, creating...
American Bill Markham (Powers Boothe) has taken his family to the jungles of Brazil, where he has been hired to design a dam. Unexpectedly, a native tribe abducts his son, Tommy (Charley Boorman). Bill...
What the song is to the songbird, the myth of the hero is to the human being. Human hunter-foragers did not create the myth of the hero as a spontaneous act of artistry; they...
The Wampum Keeper is an historical novel set in 1651 in the Niagara region of present-day Ontario and New York State. It chronicles the fortunes of a Chonnonton wampum keeper and his family when...
