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Scaled for Success : The Internationalisation of the Mermaid.

By: Material type: TextPublisher: New York : John Libbey & Company, Limited, 2018Copyright date: ©2018Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780861969524
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 398.45
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Contents:
Cover -- SCALED FOR SUCCESS -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Middle Eastern Mermaid: Between Myth and Religion -- Chapter 2 Matsya Fabulism: Hindu mythologies, Mermaids and syncretism in India and Thailand -- Chapter 3 Japan: The Mermaidisation of the Ningyo -- Chapter 4 Legend of the Blue Sea: Mermaids in South Korean folklore and popular culture -- Chapter 5 From Dugongs to Sinetrons: Syncretic Mermaids in Indonesian Culture -- Chapter 6 Changelings, Conformity and Difference: Dysebel and the Sirena in Filipino Popular Culture -- Chapter 7 Millennial Měirényú: Mermaids in 21st Century Chinese Culture -- Chapter 8 Song of the Sirenas: Mermaids in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Chapter 9 Swimming Ashore: Mermaids in Australian public culture -- Chapter 10 Mama Wata Remixed: The Mermaid in Contemporary African-American Culture -- Chapter 11 Shoreline Revels: Perversity, Polyvalence and Exhibitionism at Coney Island's Mermaid Parade -- Bibliography -- Chronological catalogue of audiovisual productions featuring mermaids and mermen referenced in the volume -- Index.
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Cover -- SCALED FOR SUCCESS -- Dedication -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Middle Eastern Mermaid: Between Myth and Religion -- Chapter 2 Matsya Fabulism: Hindu mythologies, Mermaids and syncretism in India and Thailand -- Chapter 3 Japan: The Mermaidisation of the Ningyo -- Chapter 4 Legend of the Blue Sea: Mermaids in South Korean folklore and popular culture -- Chapter 5 From Dugongs to Sinetrons: Syncretic Mermaids in Indonesian Culture -- Chapter 6 Changelings, Conformity and Difference: Dysebel and the Sirena in Filipino Popular Culture -- Chapter 7 Millennial Měirényú: Mermaids in 21st Century Chinese Culture -- Chapter 8 Song of the Sirenas: Mermaids in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Chapter 9 Swimming Ashore: Mermaids in Australian public culture -- Chapter 10 Mama Wata Remixed: The Mermaid in Contemporary African-American Culture -- Chapter 11 Shoreline Revels: Perversity, Polyvalence and Exhibitionism at Coney Island's Mermaid Parade -- Bibliography -- Chronological catalogue of audiovisual productions featuring mermaids and mermen referenced in the volume -- Index.

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