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Autore |
Wightman G. J. |
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The origins of religion in the Paleolithic / / Gregory J. Wightman |
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Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2015] |
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©2015 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (307 p.) |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Religion, Prehistoric |
Prehistoric peoples - Psychology |
Material culture |
Cognition and culture |
Paleolithic period |
Archaeology and religion |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Contents; List of Figures; Maps; Chapter One: Introduction; Part I: The Embodied Brain: Neuropsychology and Religious Ritual; Chapter Two: Mirroring and Empathy; Chapter Three: Acting in Concert; Synchrony and Joint Action; Synchrony, Mirroring, and Ritual; Chapter Four: The Malleable Brain; Chapter Five: Ritualizing Sound and Movement; Notes; Chapter Six: Projecting the Self; Sensed Presences; Anthropomorphism; Chapter Seven: External Agents; Ultimate Sources of Power; Ethics, Morality, and Compliance; Supernatural Agents; Chapter Eight: Language, Ritual, and Religion; Note |
Chapter Nine: Dynamic Fields of ConsciousnessChapter Ten: Private and Corporate Ritual; Part II: The Embedded Body: From Routines to Rituals through Material Engagements; Chapter Eleven: First Stirrings; Antecedents, 6.0-3.5 mya; Archaic Hominins, 3.5-1.7 mya; Notes; Chapter Twelve: Negotiating Land; Moving through Land; Stopping Places; Fire; Monumentalizing the Landscape; Chapter Thirteen: Tools, Minds, and Rituals; Chapter Fourteen: Making a Mark; Emergence of Marking; Object Curation and Anthropomorphism; Manipulation of Colored Pigments; Marking the Living Body |
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Chapter Fifteen: Death and BeyondDeath Awareness; Neanderthal Burials; Animal Burials and Bone Caching; Notes; Chapter Sixteen: African Sapients, 200-50 kya; Monuments and Landscape Marking; Materials as "Symbols"; Burial Rituals; Notes; Chapter Seventeen: The Emergence of Religious Ritual; Before the Paleolithic; The Lower Paleolithic; The Middle Paleolithic; Looking Forward; References; Index; About the Author |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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<span><span>Gregory J. Wightman explores the significance of goal-directed action and the rise of material culture in this intricate, evidence-based examination of religion's earliest origins.</span></span> |
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