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Bruce Lincoln is the Caroline E. Haskell Professor of History of
Religions and also has affilliations with the Departments of
Classics and Anthropology, the Center for Middle Eastern
Studies, and the Committee on the Ancient Mediterranean
World. Thematically, his interests center on the social and
political dimensions of myth, ritual, and religion, along with the
mythic and ritual dimensions of society and politics. With regard
to considerations of space and time, his researches are
comparative and wide-ranging, but he is usually concerned with
ancient (pre-Islamic Iran, pre-Christian northern Europe,
Greece, and Rome) or ethnographic materials (Africa,
Melanesia, Native American). His more recent publications
include Theorizing Myth: Narrative, Ideology, and Scholarship(1999),
Authority: Construction and Corrosion (1994), and
Death, War, and Sacrifice: Studies in Ideology and Practice
(1991). He is still trying to live down the article he wrote on
Professional Wrestling in Discourse and the Construction of
Society (1989). At present, he is working on the place of
narratives that hover between myth and history in the
emergence, consolidation, and contestation of kingship and the
nation-state in medieval Scandinavia.
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