How We Became Human : Mimetic Theory and the Science of Evolutionary Origins /

From his groundbreaking Violence and the Sacred and Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World, Ren ̌Girard's mimetic theory is presented as elucidating "the origins of culture." He posits that archaic religion (or "the sacred"), particularly in its dynamics of sacrific...

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Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: East Lansing, MI : Michigan State University Press, 2015.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Religion > Philosophy.
Human beings > Origin.
Anthropology of religion.
PHILOSOPHY > General.
social sciences.
culture note.
anthropology.
behavioral sciences.
social anthropology.
ethnology.
evolution.
methodology.
anthropology of religion.
Sciences sociales.
Culture.
Anthropologie.
Sciences du comportement.
Évolution sociale.
Ethnologie.
Évolution (Biologie)
Methodologie.
Religion > Philosophie.
Homme > Origines.
Anthropologie religieuse.
Ethnology
Anthropology, Education, Sociology and Social Phenomena
Psychiatry and Psychology
Phenomena and Processes
Social Sciences
Analytical, Diagnostic and Therapeutic Techniques and Equipment
Behavioral Disciplines and Activities
Culture
Anthropology
Investigative Techniques
Behavioral Sciences
Genetic Phenomena
Sociobiology
Cultural Evolution
Anthropology, Cultural
Biological Evolution
Methods
Social sciences.
Anthropology.
Social evolution.
Ethnology.
Evolution (Biology)
Methodology.
Electronic books.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part One. Questions of Methodology and Hermeneutics: Mimetic Theory, Darwinism, and Cultural Evolution; Coevolution and Mimesis (William H. Durham); Genes and Mimesis: Structural Patterns in Darwinism and Mimetic Theory (Paul Dumouchel); Maladaptation, Counterintuitiveness, and Symbolism: The Challenge of Mimetic Theory to Evolutionary Thinking (Pierpaolo Antonello); Part Two. Imitation, Desire, Victimization: Examining Mimetic Theory on the Evidence; Convergence between Mimetic Theory and Imitation Research (Scott Garrels).
  • The Deepest Principle of Life: Neurobiology and the Psychology of Desire (William B. Hurlbut)The Three Rs: Retaliation, Revenge, and (Especially) Redirected Aggression (David P. Barash); Part Three. Violent Origins Revisited; Violent Origins: Mimetic Rivalry in Darwinian Evolution (Melvin Konner); Mechanisms of Internal Cohesion: Scapegoating and Parochial Altruism (Zoey Reeve); A Mediatory Theory of Hominization (Giuseppe Fornari); Part Four. Interpreting Archaeological Data: Mimetic Readings of Çatalhöyük and Göbekli Tepe; Animal Scapegoating at Çatalhöyük (Rene Girard).
  • Self-transcendence and Tangled Hierarchies in Çatalhöyük (Jean-Pierre Dupuy)Rethinking the Neolithic Revolution: Symbolism and Sacrifice at Göbekli Tepe (Paul Gifford and Pierpaolo Antonello); Part Five. The Evolutionary Hermeneutics of Homo Religiosus; Intrinsic or Situated Religiousness: A Girardian Solution (Warren S. Brown, James Van Slyke, and Scott Garrels); Homo religiosus in Mimetic Perspective: An Evolutionary Dialogue (Paul Gifford); About the Authors; Index.

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