Scaled for Success: The Internationalisation of the Mermaid

"This wonderful book asks us to consider the mermaid?.?.?. across regions, nations, diasporas, and contemporary socio-cultural configurations." ?Paige West, Claire Tow Professor of Anthropology, Barnard College, Columbia University

Emerging from the confluence of Greco-Roman mythology and regional folklore, the mermaid has been an enduring motif in Western culture since the medieval period. It has also been disseminated more widely, initially through Western trade and colonization and, more...