Michael Jackson as a mythical hero. An anthropological perspective – EBOOK

The aim of this book is to investigate how traits of a mythical hero are manifested in modern culture and, to be more precise, in social beliefs about Michael Jackson. These beliefs are traces leading to complex levels of understanding the phenomenon of pop culture and its taboo. Pop culture makes up its own mythologies and creates its own heroes, but it does so with a reference to the more complex cultural wholeness. This book is an attempt to follow these references and reflect on them.

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Aneta Ostaszewska – a sociologist, researcher and academic teacher (dr habil.) working at the University of Warsaw. Founder and director of the Center for Women and Gender Research at the Faculty of Applied Social Sciences and Resocialization. Author of works in the field of auto / biography, feminism, women's studies and sociology of culture, including two books devoted to the social career of Michael Jackson (2009, 2010).