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Author:   Misha Tadd ,  Brenda Gardenour
Publisher:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Imprint:   Peter Lang Publishing Inc
Edition:   New edition
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 23.00cm
Weight:   0.470kg
ISBN:  

9781433115479

ISBN 10:   1433115476
Pages:   217
Publication Date:   12 January 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand  
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Contents: Misha Tadd: The Power of Parasites and Worms – Lesley Jo Weaver/Amber R. Campbell Hibbs: Serpents and Sanitation: A Biocultural Survey of Snake Worship, Cultural Adaptation, and Parasitic Disease in Ancient and Modern India – Levanya Vemsani: Worms and the Corporal Body in India: An Examination of Hindu Literary Traditions – Mark G. Pitner: The Wasp and the Worm: Getting Inside the Body of the Sage – Brenda S. Gardenour: 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 – Alison More: Reading the Wormy Corpus: Ambiguity and Discernment in the Lives of Medieval Saints – Marta Crivos, et al.: Some Considerations Regarding the Origin and Functions of Parasites among Two Mbya Communities in Misiones, Argentina – Charlotte Baker: Parasites and the Postcolonial: Williams Sassine’s Saint Monsieur Baly – Amy M. Thomas: Worms Politic: Parasitism, Textual Decay and Conjure Truth in Gloria Naylor’s Mama Day – Yvonne Chireau: Invasion as Affliction: Worms and Bodily Infestation in African American Hoodoo Practices – Todd LeVasseur: We Are What We Don’t Eat: Worms, Bacteria, and the Soil Around Us – Julien R. Fielding: Inside/Out: The Body Under Attack in American Popular Culture.

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Brenda Gardenour holds a PhD in medieval history from Boston University and is currently Assistant Professor of History at the Saint Louis College of Pharmacy. She has been a Fulbright scholar in Madrid, an Evelyn Nation research fellow at the Huntington Library in California, and an NEH fellow at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine in London. Her current research examines the use and abuse of Aristotelian discourse in the medieval world and its continued influence on the deeper structures of modern mentalités, particularly those linked with the horror genre. Misha Tadd is a PhD candidate at Boston University specializing in Early Daoism. He received a Chiang Ching-kuo Foundation Doctoral Fellowship for his work on Heshanggong zhu, a little-studied, but seminal, Daodejing commentary. Through this text, his dissertation explores the intersection of body, religion, and politics, and the ideal of harmony between the individual and society. Currently, he is an adjunct faculty member at Loyola Marymount University.

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