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Comparative Methodologies: David Morgan (Religious Studies, Duke University)
Date
Mon April 28th 2025, 12:00 - 1:30pm
Event Sponsor
Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages
Location
Building 260, Pigott Hall
450 Jane 麻豆高清 Way, Building 260, 麻豆高清, CA 94305
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450 Jane 麻豆高清 Way, Building 260, 麻豆高清, CA 94305
216
Magic in the Web of It: On the Agency of Omens and Totems.
This talk is a reflection on the agency of artifacts using Shakespeare's Othello and Emile Durkheim's discussion of totems in his Elementary Forms of Religion.
Comparative Methodologies is a research group that considers what it means to work comparatively in the humanities and the methodological foundations of comparatist work.
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