When they severed earth from sky: how the human mind shapes myth
"This book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies. Geologists' interpretations of how a volcanic cataclysm long ago created Oregon's Crater Lake, for e...
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| Zusammenfassung: | "This book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies. Geologists' interpretations of how a volcanic cataclysm long ago created Oregon's Crater Lake, for example, is echoed point for point in the local myth of its origin. The Klamath tribe saw it happen and passed down the story - for nearly 8,000 years." "We, however, have been literate so long that we've forgotten how myths encode reality. Recent studies of how our brains work, applied to a wide range of data from the Pacific Northwest to ancient Egypt to modern stories reported in newspapers, have helped the Barbers deduce the characteristic principles by which such tales both develop and degrade through time. Myth is in fact a quite reasonable way to convey important messages orally over many generations - although reasoning back to the original events is possible only under rather specific conditions."--BOOK JACKET. |
| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-263) and indexes |
| Beschreibung: | XV, 290 S. Ill. 25 cm |
| ISBN: | 0691099863 |
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When
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Earth from Sky
How the Human Mind
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PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON AND OXFORD
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Time Capsules 1
2 The Memory Crunch: How Long a Pipeline? 5
3 The Silence Principle: Of Lethe and the Golden Calf 17
4 More Silence: Movie Reels from Snapshots 26
5 Analogy: Our Brain s Best Talent 34
6 Willfulness: The Atom or Thou 41
7 Multiple Aspects: The More the Merrier 53
8 Multiple Viewpoints: Ear, Trunk, or Tail 71
9 Views through Biased Lenses 89
10 Metaphoric Reality: Magic and Dreams 96
11 Compression: Methuselah and the Eponymous Heroes 113
12 Post Hocus Ergo Pocus: Space Aliens Mutilate Cows! 129
13 Restructuring: New Patterns for Old 139
14 Mnemonics: Behind the Silliness 153
15 The Spirit World: A Realm Reversed 162
16 Of Sky and Time 176
17 Prometheus 218
18 Fire-Breathing Dragons 231
Appendix: Index of Myth Principles 245
Bibliography 253
Index 265
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Elizabeth Wayland Barber
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When
They Severed
Earth from Sky
How the Human Mind
Shapes Myth
PRINCETON UNIVERSITY PRESS
PRINCETON AND OXFORD
CONTENTS
List of Illustrations xi
Acknowledgments xvii
1 Time Capsules 1
2 The Memory Crunch: How Long a Pipeline? 5
3 The Silence Principle: Of Lethe and the Golden Calf 17
4 More Silence: Movie Reels from Snapshots 26
5 Analogy: Our Brain's Best Talent 34
6 Willfulness: The Atom or Thou 41
7 Multiple Aspects: The More the Merrier 53
8 Multiple Viewpoints: Ear, Trunk, or Tail 71
9 Views through Biased Lenses 89
10 Metaphoric Reality: Magic and Dreams 96
11 Compression: Methuselah and the Eponymous Heroes 113
12 Post Hocus Ergo Pocus: Space Aliens Mutilate Cows! 129
13 Restructuring: New Patterns for Old 139
14 Mnemonics: Behind the Silliness 153
15 The Spirit World: A Realm Reversed 162
16 Of Sky and Time 176
17 Prometheus 218
18 Fire-Breathing Dragons 231
Appendix: Index of Myth Principles 245
Bibliography 253
Index 265 |
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