Jeremy Narby

The Cosmic Serpent

DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A gripping investigation that opens up fresh perspectives on biology and anthropology to deliver an inspiring manifesto for unprejudiced scientific inquiry

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Phoenix
• 1999.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 129mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780753808511
• ISBN-10: 075380851X
• Artikelnr.: 09613561

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Narby studied history at the University of Canterbury and received a PhD in anthropology from Stanford University. For two years he lived with the Ashaninca Indians in the Peruvian Amazon, studying their methods of using the rainforest's resources. He lives in Switzerland with his wife and children.

Inhaltsangabe

The Cosmic Serpent Chapter 1: Forest Television
Chapter 2: Anthropologists and Shamans
Chapter 3: The Mother of the Mother of Tobacco Is a Snake
Chapter 4: Enigma in Rio
Chapter 5: Defocalizing
Chapter 6: Seeing Correspondences
Chapter 7: Myths and Molecules
Chapter 8: Through the Eyes of an Ant
Chapter 9: Receptors and Transmitters
Chapter 10: Biology's Blind Spot
Chapter 11: "What Took You So Long?"
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Permissions and Credits
Index
Bibliographic Index

Rezensionen

Books such as Narby's are at the cutting edge of contemporary thought . . . [The Cosmic Serpent] ought to be something of an intellectual cause celebre GUARDIAN