Paula Wissing

Biographic Data

ID148728
NAMEPaula Wissing
GIVEN NAMESPaula
FAMILY NAMEWissing
SIGNATUREWISSING P
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS14
TOTAL CITATIONS192
AUTHOR COUNT14
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1986
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1997
H-INDEX5

  • The Experiences of Tiresias

    Nicole Loraux, Paula WissingBOOKExperiences of Tiresias1997

    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.ARTICLEJournal of the Royal Anthropologica…1995

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

    Marilyn A Katz, Marilyn Katz et al.ARTICLEHistory and Theory1992

  • Conversations with Claude Levi-Strauss

    James A Boon, Claude Lévi-Strau et al.ARTICLEMan1992Cited by: 7

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

    Rodney Needham, Paul Veyne et al.ARTICLEMan1990Cited by: 10

  • Forms of Life and Forms of Discourse in Ancient Philosophy

    Pierre Hadot, Arnold I Davidson et al.ARTICLECritical Inquiry1990Cited by: 8

  • Kingship and Sacrifice

    Mark S Mosko, Valerio Valeri et al.ARTICLEEthnohistory1989Cited by: 2

  • As If Consenting to Horror

    Emmanuel Levinas, Paula WissingARTICLECritical Inquiry1989Cited by: 9

  • Neither an Accident nor a Mistake

    Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, Paula WissingARTICLECritical Inquiry1989Cited by: 3

  • Thinking the Apocalypse

    Maurice Blanchot, Paula WissingARTICLECritical Inquiry1989Cited by: 3

  • Prismatic Effects

    Alain Viala, Paula WissingARTICLECritical Inquiry1988Cited by: 3

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

    James R Barker, John Barker et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1987

  • Kingship and Sacrifice

    M Bloch, Valerio Valeri et al.ARTICLEMan1987

    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.ARTICLEThe American Historical Review1986Cited by: 147

    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…