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New York : Columbia University Press, c2007

1 online resource (xx, 185 p.)

ISBN 0231510853 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 9780231510851 (electronic bk.)

ISBN 0231138067 (cloth : alk. paper)

ISBN 9780231138062 (cloth : alk. paper)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [167]-176) and index

The Dutch bread-man : ocean as divinity and scapegoat -- The crisis of modern marine pollution -- The purifying sea in the religious imagination : supernatural aspects of natural elements -- "The sea can wash away all evils" : ancient Greece and the Cathartic Sea -- "The great woman down there" : Sedna and ritual pollution in Inuit seascapes -- "O ocean, I ask you to be merciful" : the Hindu submarine mare-fire -- "Here end the works of the sea, the works of love".

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries

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(OCoLC)831121347