The luck archive : exploring belief, superstition, and tradition

Menjivar, Mark; Fletcher, Harrell

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"Photographer Mark Menjivar spent years exploring the intersections between luck and the beliefs, superstitions, and traditions people hold dear. The physical Luck Archive contains rings, coins, clovers, charms, patches, underwear, sports superstitions, lottery strategies, animal stories, dolls, games, crystals, seeds, cigarettes, rainbows, and more, collected here in photographs and text"--</div> <br> Abstract: <div class="showMoreLessReadmore"> 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<span class='showMoreLessContentElement' style='display: none;'> discovery beguiled Menjivar so much that he began a multiyear exploration into the concept of luck and its intersections with belief, culture, superstition, a</span> <span class='showMoreLessControlElement'><span class="control-link">Read more...</span></span>

Request Code
ZLIBIO2084886
Published
2015
Publisher
Trinity University Press
Pages
158
Language
English
Format
EPUB
ISBN-13
9781595342492
ISBN-10
1595342494