LIBROS DEL AUTOR: loring mdanforth

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  • The Macedonian Conflict
    Loring M. Danforth / Loring MDanforth
    Greeks and Macedonians are presently engaged in an often heated dispute involving competing claims to a single identity. Each group asserts that they, and they alone, have the right to identify themselves as Macedonians. The Greek government denies the existence of a Macedonian nation and insists that all Macedonians are Greeks, while Macedonians vehemently assert their existen...
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    71,98 €

  • Firewalking and Religious Healing
    Loring M. Danforth / Loring MDanforth
    'If the Saint calls you, if you have an open road, then you don’t feel the fire as if it were your enemy,' says one of the participants in the Anastenaria. This compelling work evokes and contrasts two forms of firewalking and religious healing: first, the Anastenaria, a northern Greek ritual in which people who are possessed by Saint Constantine dance dramatically over red-hot...
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    78,16 €

  • The Death Rituals of Rural Greece
    Alexander Tsiaras / Loring M. Danforth / Loring MDanforth
    This compelling text and dramatic photographic essay convey the emotional power of the death rituals of a small Greek village--the funeral, the singing of laments, the distribution of food, the daily visits to the graves, and especially the rite of exhumation. These rituals help Greek villagers face the universal paradox of mourning: how can the living sustain relationships wit...
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    82,31 €