Browsing Odum Library by Subject "Video recordings"

Browsing Odum Library by Subject "Video recordings"

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  • Ancient Ways Festival Panel, Harbin Springs, California, May 5-9, 1993. Video. 
    Tannen, Holly; Fox, Farida Ka'walani; M. Macha NightMare; Turner, Glenn; Rasmussen, Steve C.; Harder, Greg (Familiar Productions (San Francisco, Calif.), 1993-05-09)
    The Goddess Workshop is a panel discussion exploring the concept of the Goddess and its role in a matriarchal society. Holly Tanner jumps off the panel discussion with AUEPGWM (Ancient Universal Egalitarian Peaceful Goddess ...
  • Bud Williams Oral History Interview, Turpentine Camps and Naval Stores, September 20, 1983 
    Williams, Budd (Valdosta State University Archives and Special Collections, 1983-09-20)
    Bud Williams (John J. Williams) answers more questions about his experiences in the Turpentine industry. An unidentified woman also talks about growing up in a turpentine camp and folk remedies used in the camp she lived ...
  • The Fads the Drive Us: From Frazer, Freud, and Foucault to Butler and Connell 
    Budin, Stephanie Lynn (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    This presentation is a look at the various fads that have driven and skewed research in the Humanities in the past century, with a particular focus on how these fads have affected the study of human sexuality. Each case ...
  • Frazerian Survivals: Contemporary Witchcraft and The Golden Bough 
    Cornish, Helen (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    This ethnographic paper traces how remnants of Frazer’s The Golden Bough are navigated amongst twenty-first century witches as they orient contemporary practices towards the past. Additional Authors: Shaking the Tree, ...
  • The Golden Bough and the Press 
    Phillips, Julia (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-10)
    Part of the appeal for Frazer's work – both academic and populist – was that the Victorian age introduced ideas about evolution, and especially the concept of ‘New Imperialism' and authoritative rationalism, which placed ...
  • Halloween : Castro 10/90. Source 2 
    Kassel, Vampyre Mike; Maschal, Ted, 1960- (San Francisco, CA: Familiar Productions, 1990-10-31)
    Vampyre Mike and Ted Maschal take to the streets during Halloween in the Castro to interview attendees and join in the celebration. Available on YouTube at https://youtu.be/grw-R3QFgac
  • The Hebrew Bible Scapegoat: Complicating a Frazerian Typology 
    Smith, Caroline (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    Although now methodologically outdated, The Golden Bough is credited with making decisive the scapegoat’s meaning as the innocent surrogate victim who is blamed and punished for the deeds of others. This victim’s namesake, ...
  • "Hypothesis as Theory: The Obstinate Nostrums in Biblical Studies and the Humanities 
    Chester (Biblical scholar), Ryan (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    The idea of religious studies and religion convenes at the intersection of anachronism, pragmatism, and the non sequitur. The religious concept itself, although sanctioned with formal authority, is nonetheless premised on ...
  • The Legacy of The Golden Bough in the Interpretation of Early Sumerian Myth: The Case of Ninsumun and Lugalbanda 
    Linder, Nadia (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    Many tenets first formulated by Sir James Frazer in his magnum opus The Golden Bough still survive to this day in discussions of ancient Mesopotamian cult, myth, and religion. As a case study for the still pernicious ...
  • Moon and Huntress: Frazer’s Arician Diana in Italian-American Witchcraft 
    Tully, Caroline (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    Dr. Carolina Tully explores Raven Grimassi's book Italian Witchcraft and the influence of Frazer's Golden Bough on his theory of Strega origins and its relationship to the goddess Diana. Additional Authors: Shaking the ...
  • Much as I Owe to Mannhardt…:. Wald- und Feldkulte at the Roots of The Golden Bough 
    Rosa, Frederico Delgado (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-10)
    Wilhelm Mannhardt (1831-1880) is an excluded ancestor par excellence. Never translated, seldom read, his work is only mentioned in passing, as a source of data for The Golden Bough. Despite James Frazer acknowledging his ...
  • The Nude in Iconography in Contemporary Cults: A Study Case of Lilith 
    Lavallé, Vanessa (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    In Western contemporary paganism, “naked Goddess’’ figures are often used as images of the “Great Goddess”. This holds particularly true in the Western French Wicca which uses ancient Mesopotamian iconography as the ...
  • The Perils of Othering and Brothering: Some Thoughts on Dying Gods in Ancient Mesopotamia 
    Scurlock, JoAnne (Prudence Priest Collection of the New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    The Frazerian Fertility Cult is the mirror image of a culture that is at the same time sex-obsessed and deeply uncomfortable on the subject. From earliest times in ancient Mesopotamia, overpopulation was a serious concern ...
  • Popular Frazerism and Re-enchantment 
    Testa, Alessandro (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-10)
    The talk will start with a brief overview of the historiography of Frazer's impactful, everlasting legacy in European academic, literary, and pop cultures. It will then focus on one, specific new paradigm, "Popular Frazerism", ...
  • Reclaiming Benefit: 20 Years of Craft in the Bay Area 
    M. Macha NightMare; McClimans, John P.; Harder, Greg; Priest, Prudence; Harlow, Alison; Carson, Jo; Tranquil'son, Kalyn; Paxson, Diana L.; O'Mallory, Pandora Minerva; Andraste (M. Macha NightMare, 1990)
    A panel of religious leaders discuss Craft topics after viewing two films, A Dance for the Goddess, and Between the Worlds, and viewing slides of rituals taken in the 1970s. 1). The first question from the audience was ...
  • Rejecting the Embrace of the Goddess? Minoan Archaeology and the Divine Feminine 
    Morris, Christine (Prudence Priest Collection of the New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    This paper is a point of departure from the Cretan Bronze Age ideas about Minoan female divinity strongly shaped by Sir Arthur Evans, excavator of the palace of Knossos. Evans, in turn, was influenced by contemporaries ...
  • The "Resurrection" of Frazer's Dying Gods in the Ancient Mediterranean Mythology. A Fresh Take on the Divine Death and Resurrection Through Comparison: The Case of Baal, Inanna/Ishtar and Dionysus 
    Corrente, Paola (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    In this presentation, Correntel discusses the myths of Inanna/Ishtar's, Baal's and Dionysus's death and resurrection in a comparative perspective, moving from textual evidence. He also addresses the major critical points ...
  • Same but Different: Frazer’s Sympathetic Law of Similarity and the Greco-Roman defixiones 
    Moorees, Saskia (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-12)
    Frazer’s typology of ‘sympathetic magic’ proved especially popular in the study of ancient magic after it appeared in The Golden Bough. Frazer’s Law of Similarity, in particular, was predicated on the idea that according ...
  • Sequoia Memorial 
    NightMare, M. Macha (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library. Valdosta State University, 2008)
    A memorial for Sequoia Greenfield (September 12, 1944-October 10, 2008) hosted by Prudence Priest and organized M. Macha NightMare. Sequoia was a Dianic Wiccan that was influential to many people with her vibrant life. ...
  • Sexual Agency of Ishtar in Akkadian Love Literature 
    Nissinen, Martti (New Age Movements, Occultism, and Spiritualism Research Library, 2023-02-11)
    First Keynote Speaker. The goddess Ištar has multiple gendered agencies in Mesopotamian texts. She features as a lover, mother, daughter, as well as an independent sexual agent who is capable of transgressing gender ...

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