Past Featured Photos

Below are photos that have been featured in the past in our website front page.

Above: one of many murals featuring whales around Kaikoura on the East coast of the South Island, New Zealand. Whales put Kaikoura on the map, so it is fitting that there are several artistic tributes to these creatures around the town. From the senior thesis of Caroline Lowe ’12, “Tere Tohorā Tere Tangata: Where Whales Journey People Follow” (photo by C. Lowe).

Above: Spring 2012 course offerings include Folklore and Mythology 90i. Fairy Tales and Fantasy Literature (Maria Tatar); Folklore and Mythology 171. Chinese New Year Pictures (Felicity Lufkin); and Scandinavian 102. Scandinavian Folklore: Trolls, Trolldom and the Uses of Tradition and Scandinavian 150. The Vikings and the Nordic Heroic Tradition (Stephen Mitchell). See our Courses and Cross Listings pages for details and links! (Featured in January 2012.)

(Above: Artfully arranged plastic bottles, license plates, tires, and a small chapel (not shown) make up a roadside shrine to Argentine folk saint Difunta Correa in San Luis Province. Devotees leave water as an offering to the Difunta because, according to legend, she died of thirst in a desert. Meredith Keffer '12 is studying this saint for her senior thesis; photo by M. Keffer. Featured in December 2011.)

(Above: Anna Walters (F&M class of ’06), along with Reynaldo Gonzales and musicians, performs a Yemaya Afro-Cuban Orisha dance in the Thompson Room of the Barker Center, during the February 2009 Symposium “Legends of Landscape, Narratives of Nature”.  Featured in fall of 2011.)