[This search is completed as of Jan 2, 2023. However, S/HE is in need of book-reviews on a rolling basis.]
The S/HE peer-reviewed journal (S/HE: An International Journal of Goddess Studies) is seeking a book reviewer for Malgorzata Oleszkiewicz-Peralba’s newly released book, Mythology and Symbolism of Eurasia and Indigenous Americas: Manifestations in Artifacts and Rituals to be included in the forthcoming issue (Vol 2 No 1, 2023).
Book details are found as follows:
Publisher: Berghahn Books (New York, Oxford)
162 pages, 73 illus., bibliog., index
ISBN 978-1-80073-816-4
eISBN 978-1-80073-817-1
$135.00/£99.00
Published in December 2022
Table of Contents
Description: A system of myths, symbols, and rituals, dating back to the Paleolithic and Neolithic, survives in present-day imagery. In exploring this system, special attention is drawn to the linkage between ancient and contemporary civilizations of Eurasia and Mesoamerica, as seen in their cosmology, and expressed in common mythological and iconographic themes. The author examines contemporary Middle American and eastern European textiles, especially women’s garments, that contain an elaborated sacred code of symbols, and include remnants of the four horizontal directions, and the three vertical worlds that portray the structure of the universe. The cosmology contained in patterns around the world denotes striking parallels that attest to internal connections between different cultures, beyond time and place.
Ph.D. is not required but the book review article will have to abide by the Submission Instructions of S/HE Book Reviews.
If you are interested, email Dr. Helen Hwang (mago9books@gmail.com). She will provide a PDF version of the book.