{"id":2077,"date":"2007-05-31T00:50:15","date_gmt":"2007-05-31T00:50:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2077"},"modified":"2007-05-31T00:50:15","modified_gmt":"2007-05-31T00:50:15","slug":"fascinating-and-feminist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/?p=2077","title":{"rendered":"Fascinating and feminist"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href = \"http:\/\/www.tls.timesonline.co.uk\/article\/0%2C%2C25549-2644221%2C00.html\">This book<\/a> just went right to the top of my must-read list:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Chenciner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s study of 109 mountain women in Daghestan reveals a vast assemblage of signs, many shared with Turkic people, with Ossetians, with Hungarians and Sarmatians. Crosses, Stars of David and seven-branched trees (transposed into menorah) are seen not as the identity marks of either Judaism or Christianity but as part of an ancient Mesopotamian-derived cornucopia of protective symbolism. In Daghestan, the tattoos were made by elder women on girls, usually at the time of their coming of age&#8230;.<\/p>\n<p>AND &#8230;we can only be grateful for an author who does not tuck his debt to his vital local sources within a sentence or two, in \u00e2\u20ac\u0153acknowledgements\u00e2\u20ac\u009d, but names all 109 mountain women under their nineteen different villages.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This book just went right to the top of my must-read list: Chenciner\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s study of 109 mountain women in Daghestan reveals a vast assemblage of signs, many shared with Turkic people, with Ossetians, with Hungarians and Sarmatians. Crosses, Stars of David and seven-branched trees (transposed into menorah) are seen not as the identity marks of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-feminism","author-natalieben"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/philobiblon.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}