The origins of religion in the Paleolithic / / Gregory J. Wightman

• Autore: Wightman G. J.
• Pubblicazione: Lanham, Maryland : , : Rowman & Littlefield, , [2015]; ©2015
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (307 p.)
• Disciplina: 201/.42
• Soggetto topico: Religion, Prehistoric; Prehistoric peoples - Psychology; Material culture; Cognition and culture; Paleolithic period; Archaeology and religion
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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 ; 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
• Sommario/riassunto: <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>
• Titolo autorizzato: The origins of religion in the Paleolithic
• ISBN: 1-4422-4290-6
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910788048003321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II