Back when I had more time than money, I followed the sirens’ call to Greece, whose mythology had enchanted me since childhood. Loading up my backpack, I set off on four months of ferry trips, hiking, hosteling and camping on … Continue reading
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The Ariadne Connection by Sara Stamey A Journey to the Crossroads of Science and Myth A CYGNUS Award Winner The New Leprosy plague and a geomagnetic reversal threaten the world’s precarious balance. When jaded American expat Peter Mitchell agrees to … Continue reading
As soon as you start talking about folklore, you have to ask yourself whose view you’re going to use. There are terms for this in anthropology and related fields, that I believe we stole from linguistics: emic and etic. (They’re … Continue reading