The Luck Archive: Exploring Belief, Superstition, and Tradition

Mark Menjivar

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Edité par Trinity University Press,U.S., 2015

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Artist Mark Menjivar was in an antique bookshop in Fort Wayne, Indiana, when he found 4 four-leaf clovers pressed between the yellowed pages of an aged copy of 1000 Facts Worth Knowing. Their discovery beguiled Menjivar so much that he began a multiyear exploration into the concept of luck and its intersections with belief, culture, superstition, and tradition in people's lives. Menjivar has spent hours and days engaging people in airplanes, tattoo shops, bingo halls, international grocery stores, public parks, baseball stadiums, and voodoo shops--and out on the streets and in their homes. Along the way he documented his findings to create a physical archive that contains hundreds of objects (rings, underwear, food items, clovers, horses, pigs, herbs, rainbows, lottery strategies, seeds, day trader insights, statues, patches, crystals, spices) and the stories and pictures that go with them. Through photographs and first person accounts, The Luck Archive takes the best of these ideas, thoughts, and objects and gives readers a glimpse into the cultures and superstitions of a colorful array of humanity. …

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Titre
The Luck Archive: Exploring Belief, Superstition, and Tradition
Auteur
Mark Menjivar
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Trinity University Press,U.S.
Année de publication
2015
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Paperback
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anglais
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1595342494
ISBN à 13 chiffres
9781595342492

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