[Antiquitas] Course HUNT IN ANCIENT AND ETHNIC RELIGIONS (5 credits) starts 30 of OCTOBER

[piludu at mappi.helsinki.fi]

There are still few places (12) for students
interested in the following course:

HUNT IN ANCIENT AND ETHNIC RELIGIONS,
5 credits (op), code 106304

On Tue 2.15 PM - 3.45 PM
 From Tue 30 of OCTOBER 2012 to Tue 11 of December 2012

Place: Room P722 in Porthania
Address: Yliopistonkatu 3
7th Floor

The course is opened to Degree and Erasmus, Exchange and Visiting
students of the University of Helsinki.

The inscription by weeboody is CLOSED,
BUT the interested students can register
writing an E-MAIL to the lecurer:
vesa.piludu at helsinki.fi
Please add:
- the name of the course
- the names, student number, e-mail and major of the student
PS:
The lecturer will answer to all the requests,
indicating if there are still free places.

Contents of the lectures:

Contemporary researches demonstrates that hunt imaginary has a  
significant place in several cultures, where hunting was not a  
necessity for basic survival. Judith M. Barringer revealed the  
vitality of hunting myths and rituals in Ancient Greece. Not only  
deities like Artemis and Apollo, but also several heroes and heroines  
were involved in hunt: Orion, Heracles, Theseus, Aktaion, Arktas,  
Kallisto, Atalanta. Even in early Christianity we found hunt themes,  
like the legend of Saint Eustáchios. Rane Willerlsev analyzed the  
complexity of religious relations between Yukaghirs hunters and preys:  
in
Siberia the forest is conceived a dynamic hall of mirrors, inhabited  
by animals, humans and spirits able to change roles and identities.  
Riku Hämäläinen revaluated the differences between bear rituals of  
Subarctic Cree Indians and the ones of Native peoples of the Plains.  
Lotte Tarkka noticed the relevance of forest and hunt imagery in  
Karelian folk poetry and spells of the 19th Century. Nowadays many  
researchers are oriented towards a cultural and symbolic  
interpretation of hunt themes.

Examination:
By ESSAY or study diary
in ENGLISH, FINNISH, SPANISH, FRENCH, ITALIAN or PORTUGUESE.

Information about the lecturer:

Vesa Matteo Piludu,
University of Helsinki

Vesa Matteo Piludu is a Finnish-Italian scholar of the University of  
Helsinki. He is working as a teacher and lecturer since 2006, giving  
several courses for the Departments and Units of Study Religion,  
Musicology, Semiotics, Archaeology, Art Research: Greek and Roman  
Mysteries and Oriental Cults; Ancient Greek Religion; Ancient Roman  
Mythology; Ancient Roman Religion, Myths and Music; Myths and Arts;  
Music and Religious Trance; Ancient Greek and Roman Ritual Music;  
War's Signs and Peace's Languages in Media and Arts; Gender and Visual  
Arts; Introduction to Semiotics of Culture; Kalevala and Finnish Music.