Paula Wissing

• The Experiences of Tiresias

  Nicole Loraux, Paula Wissing•BOOK•Experiences of Tiresias•1997

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  Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek imaginary, revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man. Experiences of Tiresias, its title referring to the shepherd struck blind after glimpsing Athena's naked body, captures this ambivalence in exploring how the Greek male defines himself in relationsh…

• The Victim and Its Mask

  T O Beidelman, Abdellah Hammoudi et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•1995

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• Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination

  Marilyn A Katz, Marilyn Katz et al.•ARTICLE•History and Theory•1992

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• Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss

  James A Boon, Claude Lévi-Strau et al.•ARTICLE•Man•1992•Citada por: 7

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• Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination

  Rodney Needham, Paul Veyne et al.•ARTICLE•Man•1990•Citada por: 10

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• Forms of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy

  Pierre Hadot, Arnold I Davidson et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1990•Citada por: 8

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• Kingship and Sacrifice

  Mark S Mosko, Valerio Valeri et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnohistory•1989•Citada por: 2

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• As If Consenting to Horror

  Emmanuel Levinas, Paula Wissing•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1989•Citada por: 9

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• Neither an Accident nor a Mistake

  Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Paula Wissing•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1989•Citada por: 3

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• Thinking the Apocalypse

  Maurice Blanchot, Paula Wissing•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1989•Citada por: 3

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• Prismatic Effects

  Alain Viala, Paula Wissing•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1988•Citada por: 3

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• Mobility and Identity in the Island Pacific. (Pacific Viewpoint, Volume 26, Number 1 [April 1985].)

  James R Barker, John Barker et al.•ARTICLE•Pacific Affairs•1987

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• Kingship and Sacrifice

  M Bloch, Valerio Valeri et al.•ARTICLE•Man•1987

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  This article reviews Marshall Sahlins's _Islands of History_, focusing on the theoretical issues it raises concerning the anthropological study of historical transformation. Sahlins's analysis of the Hawaiian kingdom's encounter with Captain Cook is used to illustrate the complex interplay between structure and event, cultural categories and historical action. The review examines Sahlins's concept of "heroic history," which emphasizes the role of…

• Kingship and Sacrifice

  W Patrick Strauss, Paula Wissing et al.•ARTICLE•The American Historical Review•1986•Citada por: 147

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  Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawa…

• Kingship and Sacrifice

  W Patrick Strauss, Paula Wissing et al.•ARTICLE•The American Historical Review•1986•Citada por: 147

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  Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawa…

• Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination

  Rodney Needham, Paul Veyne et al.•ARTICLE•Man•1990•Citada por: 10

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• As If Consenting to Horror

  Emmanuel Levinas, Paula Wissing•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1989•Citada por: 9

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• Forms of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy

  Pierre Hadot, Arnold I Davidson et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1990•Citada por: 8

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• Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss

  James A Boon, Claude Lévi-Strau et al.•ARTICLE•Man•1992•Citada por: 7

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• Neither an Accident nor a Mistake

  Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Paula Wissing•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1989•Citada por: 3

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• Thinking the Apocalypse

  Maurice Blanchot, Paula Wissing•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1989•Citada por: 3

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• Prismatic Effects

  Alain Viala, Paula Wissing•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1988•Citada por: 3

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• Kingship and Sacrifice

  Mark S Mosko, Valerio Valeri et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnohistory•1989•Citada por: 2

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• Kingship and Sacrifice

  W Patrick Strauss, Paula Wissing et al.•ARTICLE•The American Historical Review•1986•Citada por: 147

  Añadir item

  Valeri presents an overview of Hawaiian religious culture, in which hierarchies of social beings and their actions are mirrored by the cosmological hierarchy of the gods. As the sacrifice is performed, the worshipper is incorporated into the god of his class. Thus he draws on divine power to sustain the social order of which his action is a part, and in which his own place is determined by the degree of his resemblance to his god. The key to Hawa…

• Mobility and Identity in the Island Pacific. (Pacific Viewpoint, Volume 26, Number 1 [April 1985].)

  James R Barker, John Barker et al.•ARTICLE•Pacific Affairs•1987

  Añadir item

• Kingship and Sacrifice

  M Bloch, Valerio Valeri et al.•ARTICLE•Man•1987

  Añadir item

  This article reviews Marshall Sahlins's _Islands of History_, focusing on the theoretical issues it raises concerning the anthropological study of historical transformation. Sahlins's analysis of the Hawaiian kingdom's encounter with Captain Cook is used to illustrate the complex interplay between structure and event, cultural categories and historical action. The review examines Sahlins's concept of "heroic history," which emphasizes the role of…

• Prismatic Effects

  Alain Viala, Paula Wissing•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1988•Citada por: 3

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• Kingship and Sacrifice

  Mark S Mosko, Valerio Valeri et al.•ARTICLE•Ethnohistory•1989•Citada por: 2

  Añadir item

• As If Consenting to Horror

  Emmanuel Levinas, Paula Wissing•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1989•Citada por: 9

  Añadir item

• Neither an Accident nor a Mistake

  Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Paula Wissing•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1989•Citada por: 3

  Añadir item

• Thinking the Apocalypse

  Maurice Blanchot, Paula Wissing•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1989•Citada por: 3

  Añadir item

• Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination

  Rodney Needham, Paul Veyne et al.•ARTICLE•Man•1990•Citada por: 10

  Añadir item

• Forms of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy

  Pierre Hadot, Arnold I Davidson et al.•ARTICLE•Critical Inquiry•1990•Citada por: 8

  Añadir item

• Did the Greeks Believe in Their Myths? An Essay on the Constitutive Imagination

  Marilyn A Katz, Marilyn Katz et al.•ARTICLE•History and Theory•1992

  Añadir item

• Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss

  James A Boon, Claude Lévi-Strau et al.•ARTICLE•Man•1992•Citada por: 7

  Añadir item

• The Victim and Its Mask

  T O Beidelman, Abdellah Hammoudi et al.•ARTICLE•Journal of the Royal Anthropologica…•1995

  Añadir item

• The Experiences of Tiresias

  Nicole Loraux, Paula Wissing•BOOK•Experiences of Tiresias•1997

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  Nicole Loraux has devoted much of her writing to charting the paths of the Greek imaginary, revealing a collective masculine psyche fraught with ambivalence as it tries to grasp the differences between nature and culture, body and soul, woman and man. Experiences of Tiresias, its title referring to the shepherd struck blind after glimpsing Athena's naked body, captures this ambivalence in exploring how the Greek male defines himself in relationsh…

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