Barber When They Severed Earth from Sky

How the Human Mind Shapes Myth
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-4286-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 312 Seiten

Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Professor of Linguistics and Archaeology at Occidental College, is the author of The Mummies of Ürümchi (W. W. Norton), Women's Work (W. W. Norton), and Prehistoric Textiles (Princeton). Paul T. Barber, a research associate with the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Vampires, Burial, and Death (Yale).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Barber, Elizabeth Wayland

Barber, Paul T.

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Spezielle Soziologie Soziologie des Brauchtums und der Traditionen
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Volkskunde Volkskunde: Sitten, Traditionen, Mythen, Legenden

Inhaltsverzeichnis

FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. ix
ILLUSTRATIONS, pg. xi
Acknowledgments, pg. xvii
1 Time Capsules, pg. 1
2 The Memory Crunch: How Long a Pipeline?, pg. 5
3 The Silence Principle: Of Lethe and the Golden Calf, pg. 17
4 More Silence: Movie Reels from Snapshots, pg. 26
5 Analogy: Our Brain’s Best Talent, pg. 34
6 Willfulness: The Atom or Thou, pg. 41
7 Multiple Aspects: The More the Merrier, pg. 53
8 Multiple Viewpoints: Ear,Trunk, or Tail, pg. 71
9 Views through Biased Lenses, pg. 89
10 Metaphoric Reality: Magic and Dreams (or Hu’s on First), pg. 96
11 Compression: Methuselah and the Eponymous Heroes, pg. 113
12 Post Hocus Ergo Pocus: Space Aliens Mutilate Cows!, pg. 129
13 Restructuring: New Patterns for Old, pg. 139
14 Mnemonics: Behind the Silliness, pg. 153
15 The Spirit World: A Realm Reversed, pg. 162
16 Of Sky and Time, pg. 176
17 Prometheus, pg. 218
18 Fire-Breathing Dragons, pg. 231
APPENDIX. Index of Myth Principles, pg. 245
BIBLIOGRAPHY, pg. 253
INDEX, pg. 265

Über Autor(innen)

Elizabeth Wayland Barber, Professor of Linguistics and Archaeology at Occidental College, is the author of The Mummies of Ürümchi (W. W. Norton), Women's Work (W. W. Norton), and Prehistoric Textiles (Princeton). Paul T. Barber, a research associate with the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of Vampires, Burial, and Death (Yale).