The New Comparative Mythology
Author : C. Scott Littleton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520024045
Author : C. Scott Littleton
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 1973
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520024045
Author : Covington Scott LITTLETON
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 31,40 MB
Release : 1966
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Author : C. Scott Littleton
Publisher :
Page : 319 pages
File Size : 50,37 MB
Release : 1982
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780520041035
Author : Stefan Linquist
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 659 pages
File Size : 34,55 MB
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 135189014X
Recent years have seen a transformation in thinking about the nature of culture. Rather than viewing culture in opposition to biology, a growing number of researchers now regard culture as subject to evolutionary processes. Recent developments in this field have shifted some of the traditional academic fault lines. Alliances are forming between researchers trained in anthropology, evolutionary biology, psychology and philosophy. Meanwhile, several distinct schools of thought have appeared which differ in their vision of what an evolutionary approach to culture should look like. This volume contains some of the most influential publications on these subjects from the past few decades. A theoretical background chapter and critical introduction identify the core issues at stake in the new study of cultural evolution. These chapters are followed by sections on each of the four dominant approaches: the phylogenetic approach, memetics, dual inheritance theory and niche construction. Following these are two chapters on closely related topics: the psychological mechanisms of culture and the existence of culture in non-human animals. Overall, this volume provides an up to date overview of some of the most exciting trends in contemporary evolutionary thought.
Author : George Cardona
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 448 pages
File Size : 38,31 MB
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 1512801208
Twenty-two internationally known linguists, anthropologists, and archaeologists discuss such questions as the original home of the Indo-Europeans, their migration, religiomythic beliefs, and legal customs in the most comprehensive treatment of Indo-European culture in recent times.
Author : Bruce Lincoln
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 433 pages
File Size : 15,89 MB
Release : 2021-06-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9004460292
In Religion, Culture, and Politics in Pre-Islamic Iran, Bruce Lincoln offers a vast overview on different aspects of the Indo-Iranian, Zoroastrian and Pre-Islamic mythologies, religions and cultural issues.
Author : William Walters
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 447 pages
File Size : 31,9 MB
Release : 2023-01-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1839108665
The Handbook on Governmentality discusses the development of an interdisciplinary field of research, focusing on Michel Foucault’s post-foundationalist concept of governmentality and the ways it has been used to write genealogies of modern states, the governance of societal problems and the governance of the self.
Author : Georges Dumézil
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 34,12 MB
Release : 1980-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780520028418
Author : Menelaos Christopoulos
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 26,95 MB
Release : 2022-05-23
Category : History
ISBN : 3110780119
The fluidity of myth and history in antiquity and the ensuing rapidity with which these notions infiltrated and cross-fertilized one another has repeatedly attracted the scholarly interest. The understanding of myth as a phenomenon imbued with social and historical nuances allows for more than one methodological approaches. Within the wider context of interdisciplinary exchange of ideas, the present volume returns to origins, as it traces and registers the association and interaction between myth and history in various literary genres in Greek and Roman antiquity (i.e. an era when the scientific definitions of and distinctions between myth and history had not yet been perceived as such, let alone fully shaped and implemented), providing original ideas, new interpretations and (re)evaluations of key texts and less well-known passages, close readings, and catholic overviews. The twenty-four chapters of this volume expand from Greek epos to lyric poetry, historiography, dramatic poetry and even beyond, to genres of Roman era and late antiquity. It is the editors’ hope that this volume will appeal to students and academic researchers in the areas of classics, social and political history, archaeology, and even social anthropology.
Author : Joseph a Dane
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 39,5 MB
Release : 2023-08-28
Category : History
ISBN : 900462533X