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Are There Different Types of Beauty?
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(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2019), 10 mins
Are there different types of beauty? In this video, WINFRIED MENNINGHAUS investigates the meanings of and values inherent in four categories of subject appeal, namely beauty, elegance, grace, and sexiness. Adopting a bottom-up approach which foregrounds individual beliefs over theoretical assumptions, Menninghaus...
(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2019), 10 mins
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Are There Forms of Media Representation of Extreme Crises that Avoid Commodification and Spectacle?
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(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2017), 10 mins
In the face of extreme crises, such as natural disasters or national catastrophes, media representation frequently tends to be voyeuristic and to transform these events into spectacles. Considering this tendency, CHRISTIANE BROSIUS investigated whether there are forms of representation that allow to be close to pe...
(Hamburg, Hamburg State: Latest Thinking, 2017), 10 mins
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Armor [sic] and Psyche
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
Typewritten notes on an unlined note card titled "Armor [Amor] and Psyche," comparing a Portuguese folk tale to the Greek myth. A citation is given for "Portuguese Folk-tales," Consiglieri Pedroso, p. 81. In this story, a poor maid grows a cabbage stalk, and finds stairs on it going down to a palace. There she sec...
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
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Arrow chain
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 85], Folder 1. Zuñi Notes) (1925) , 1 page(s)
This undated, hand-written note on the Zuni cites: Arrow chain = spear chain in N.S. Wales (Dix 294.) It contains information on: mother, milk, bear, son, search, Dixon 297.
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 85], Folder 1. Zuñi Notes) (1925) , 1 page(s)
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Arrow Feathers, Getting
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
These brief, handwritten, undated research notes on an unlined note card, titled "Arrow feathers, getting" contain a citation for a Diegueño [Kumiai] myth related in "Mythology of the Mission Indians," Constance Goddard Du Bois, Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 19, p. 147.
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
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Arrows, Getting
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1930) , 1 page(s)
Handwritten note cites Robert H. Lowie, 'The Northern Shoshone' in 'Anthropological Papers of the American Museum of Natural History,' Vol. 2, p. 282: Thrown-Away and twin. Bear-dogs. Giant proposes to make arrows for them if they get sticks. Undated.
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1930) , 1 page(s)
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Arrows - Getting Arrows
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1925) , 1 page(s)
Handwritten note titled 'Arrows - Getting Arrows' cites George Bird Grinnell, 'Falling-Star' in 'Journal of American Folklore,' Vol. 34, p. 311, on a Cheyenne myth about getting wood, water, and food. Undated.
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1925) , 1 page(s)
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Assiniboine Report
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 86], Folder 8. Assiniboine Report (Ella Deloria)) (1939) , 150 page(s)
This 26-page typewritten report is titled "Assiniboine Report" and is written by Ella Deloria. It has editorial comments and corrections in pencil and discusses the author's time in Fort Belknap with the Assiniboine tribe.
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 86], Folder 8. Assiniboine Report (Ella Deloria)) (1939) , 150 page(s)
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At the Portal - Walpi
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 91], Folder 14. Southwest Notes); photographed by Edward S. Curtis, 1868-1952 (1909), in 'Indians of the Stone Houses' by Edward S. Curtis, Scribner's Magazine, February 1909, Vol. XLV No. 2, pp. 171-172 , 3 page(s)
A black-and-white photograph clipped from the February, 1909, issue of Scribner's Magazine shows four Hopi girls or young women at an entryway to the Walpi Pueblo in northern Arizona. Two of them stand in the entryway, looking up at two others seated on a stone terrace above them. All wear dark dresses with white...
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 91], Folder 14. Southwest Notes); photographed by Edward S. Curtis, 1868-1952 (1909), in 'Indians of the Stone Houses' by Edward S. Curtis, Scribner's Magazine, February 1909, Vol. XLV No. 2, pp. 171-172 , 3 page(s)
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Atsugewi
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in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
Handwritten notes on an unlined note card titled "Atsugewi," re: creation myths of the Atsugewi Indians, from "Achomawi and Atsugewi Tales," Roland B. Dixon, Journal of American Folklore, Vol. 21, p. 170. In these stories, the earth begins as water, with Coyote and Silver-Fox living above it in the sky. Eventually...
in Ruth Fulton Benedict Papers, of Vassar College. Libraries. Archives and Special Collections Library ([Box 95]: American Indian Mythology Field Notes) (1935) , 1 page(s)
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