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UNINA9910461726003321 |
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Zimmer Carl |
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More brain cuttings [[electronic resource] ] : further explorations of the mind / / Carl Zimmer |
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New York, : Scott & Nix, Inc., 2011 |
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1-935622-31-5 |
1-935622-29-3 |
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1 online resource (88 p.) |
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Brain - Research |
Neurosciences |
Electronic books. |
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Monografia |
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"The essays in this edition were originally published in a slightly different form in Discover, The New York Times, and Scientific American."--T.p. verso. |
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Includes bibliographical references. |
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Cover; Copyright; Contents; About the Author; Preface; A Body Fit for a Gigantic Brain; The Genius of Athletes; Switching on the Happy Rat; How the Brain Wires Itself; Past Is Prologue; Decoding the Smile; A Yardstick for the Nose; Love Songs and Cockatoo Dances; The Silly Putty Brain; Ringing in the Brain; Where Pain Lives; The Trouble with Teens; A Hundred Trillion Connections; Consciousness, Bit by Bit; Selected References |
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""The brain unfolds like a flower. The more I have explored neuroscience, the more it has rewarded me with new stories. In 2010, I published Brain Cuttings: Fifteen Journeys Through the Mind. Here are fifteen more journeys. In some pieces, I look at some of the surprising ways in which the brain works. In others, I consider some of the many ways the brain goes wrong. And finally, I try to look at the brain as a whole-how the 100 billion neurons add up to a person's life of the mind, and produce consciousness."" -Carl Zimmer |
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UNINA9910463319803321 |
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Tomášková Silvia |
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Wayward Shamans : The Prehistory of an Idea / / Silvia Tomášková |
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Berkeley, CA : , : University of California Press, , [2013] |
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©2013 |
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1 online resource (289 p.) |
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Shamans - Siberia - Russia (Federation) |
Shamanism - Russia (Federation) - Siberia |
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Siberia (Russia) Religious life and customs |
Siberia (Russia) Civilization |
Siberia (Russia) Colonization |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Front matter -- Contents -- List Of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Discoveries Of An Imaginary Place -- 2. Strange Landscapes, Familiar Magic -- 3. People In A Land Before Time -- 4. The Invention Of Siberian Ethnology -- 5. Sex, Gender, And Encounters With Spirits -- 6. Changed Men And Changed Women -- 7. French Connections And The Spirits Of Prehistory -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliographic Note -- References -- Index |
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Wayward Shamans tells the story of an idea that humanity's first expression of art, religion and creativity found form in the figure of a proto-priest known as a shaman. Tracing this classic category of the history of anthropology back to the emergence of the term in Siberia, the work follows the trajectory of European knowledge about the continent's eastern frontier. The ethnographic record left by German natural historians engaged in the Russian colonial expansion project in the 18th century includes a range of shamanic practitioners, varied by gender and age. Later accounts by exiled Russian revolutionaries noted transgendered shamans. This variation vanished, however, in the translation of shamanism into archaeology theory, where a male |
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sorcerer emerged as the key agent of prehistoric art. More recent efforts to provide a universal shamanic explanation for rock art via South Africa and neurobiology likewise gloss over historical evidence of diversity. By contrast this book argues for recognizing indeterminacy in the categories we use, and reopening them by recalling their complex history. |
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