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Scaled for Success : The Internationalisation of the Mermaid /
Emerging from the confluence of Greco-Roman mythology and regional folklore, the mermaid has been an enduring motif in Western culture since the medieval period. It has also been disseminated more widely, initially through Western trade and colonisation and, more recently, through the increasing glo...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Autores principales: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2018
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| Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction / Philip Hayward
- The Middle Eastern mermaid : between myth and religion / Manal Shalaby
- Matsya fabulism : Hindu mythologies, mermaids and syncretism in India and Thailand / Philip Hayward
- Japan : the mermaidisation of the Ningyo / Philip Hayward
- Legend of the Blue Sea : mermaids in South Korean folklore and popular culture / Sarah Keith and Sung-Ae Lee
- From dugongs to sinetrons : syncretic mermaids in Indonesian culture / Philip Hayward
- Changelings, conformity and difference : Dysebel and the sirena in Filipino popular culture / Philip Hayward
- Millennial měirenyú : mermaids in 21st century Chinese culture / Philip Hayward and Pan Wang
- Song of the sirenas : mermaids in Latin America and the Caribbean / Persephone Braham
- Swimming ashore : mermaids in Australian public culture / Philip Hayward
- Mama Wata remixed : the mermaid in contemporary African-American culture / Nettrice R. Gaskins
- Shoreline revels : perversity, polyvalence and exhibitionism at Coney Island's Mermaid Parade / Philip Hayward and Lisa Milner.