Meet Me In Atlantis: My Obsessive Quest To Find The Sunken City - Plot & Excerpts
This was actually a good thing. Elizabeth Wayland Barber is an emerita professor of linguistics and archaeology at Occidental College and author of several books, including When They Severed Earth from Sky: How the Human Mind Shapes Myth, which she cowrote with her husband, Paul Barber. She was also a world-renowned expert on everything from prehistoric textiles to folk dancing and had once written a book with footnotes in twenty-six languages. After five minutes on the phone, I could tell she’d be delightful company on a long car trip. When I asked her if fellow archaeologists were a little reluctant to dip into mythology, she snorted and said, “A little bit? Uh, yeah.” It was Barber who had raised the subject of vampires, as a way to illustrate how myths are created. “The human brain demands explanations,” she told me. “For my husband’s first book he looked at all the original vampire descriptions from the archives of the Austro-Hungarian Empire,”
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