The Mirror of Medusa

by Tobin Siebers

Tobin Siebers exposes the role of superstition in unexpected areas of modern life. Combining literary and anthropological insights, his radical interpretations cast new light on the history of narcissism, the worldwide belief in the evil eye, Freud's theories of the uncanny and the role played by ethnocentrism in our view nonwestern peoples.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0520048563
• ISBN13: 9780520048560
• Release Date: January 1983
• Publisher: University of California Press
• Length: 193 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.