Pascal Boyer

Cognitive Aspects of Religious Symbolism

Herausgeber: Boyer, Pascal

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

In closely focused essays, a group of anthropologists debate the particular nature of religious concepts and categories.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Juli 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 427g
• ISBN-13: 9780521438704
• ISBN-10: 0521438705
• Artikelnr.: 25043321

Inhaltsangabe

I. Cognitive processes and cultural representations: 1. Cognitive aspects
of religious symbolism Pascal Boyer; 2. Whither 'ethnoscience'? Scott
Atran; II. The structure of religious categories: 3. Computational
complexity in the cognitive modelling of cosmological ideas J. D. Keller
and F. K. Lehman (U Chit Hlaing); 4. 'Earth' and 'path' as complex
categories: semantics and symbolism in Kwaio culture Roger Keesing; 5.
Domain-specificity, living kinds and symbolism Maurice Bloch; 6.
Pseudo-natural kinds Pascal Boyer; III. Acquisition and belief fixation: 7.
Sign into symbol, symbol as sign: cognitive aspects of a social process
Christian Toren; 8. Talking about souls: the pragmatic construction of
meaning in Cuna ritual language Carlo Severi; IV. The structure of ritual
action: 9. Cognitive categories, cultural forms and ritual structures E.
Thomas Lawson; 10. The interactive basis of ritual effectiveness in a male
initiation rite Michael Houseman.