Past minds
Subtitle: studies in cognitive historiography
By: edited by Luther H. Martin and Jesper Sørensen.
Contributors: Martin, Luther H., 1937-; Sørensen, Jesper, 1968-
Series: Religion, cognition, and culture
Publisher: Equinox Pub. Ltd.
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London; Oakville, CT
Language: eng
Number of pages: 206
ISBN-13: 9781845537401; 9781845537418
Subjects: Religion; Cognition and culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Preface / Luther H. Martin, Jesper Sorensen; title: Introduction; title: Past minds : evolution, cognition and history / Luther H. Martin; title: Cognitive history and cultural epidemiology / Christophe Heintz, Konrad Lorenz; title: Minds and ancient civilizations; title: Technology and past minds : the case of Jewish niche construction / Gabriel Levy; title: Illuminatory of the wide earth, strong weapon of the gods, unbribable judge : intuitive ontologies and the use of divine epithets in Assyro-Bablylonian texts / Peter Westh; title: Cultural stability and the ideal landscape : the symbolism of trees and plants in Maya culture / Christian Prager; title: No time to philosophize : Norwegian oral tradition and the cognitive economics of belief / Dirk Johannsen; title: Roman minds; title: Prisons of the longue dure : the circulation and acceptance of prodigia in Roman antiquity / Anders Lisdorf; title: What might cognitive science contribute to our understanding of the roman cult of mithras? / Alef Chalupa; title: Do the multiple initiations of Lucius in Apuleius' metamorphoses falsify the ritual form hypothesis? / Douglass Gragg; title: Religion explained : Lucian and the cognitive study of religion / Ulrich Berner; title: Magic and mind in early Christianity / Istvan Czachesz; title: Conclusion; title: Beneath the surface of history / Donald Wiebe; title: Past minds : present historiography and cognitive science / Jesper Sorensen.