Shamans of the Lost World
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Shamans of the Lost World

A Cognitive Approach to the Prehistoric Religion of the Ohio Hopewell

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eBook - ePub

Shamans of the Lost World

A Cognitive Approach to the Prehistoric Religion of the Ohio Hopewell

About this book

Shamans of the Lost World bridges the gap between recent work in the cognitive sciences and some of humankind's oldest religious expressions. In this detailed look at the prehistoric shamanism of the Ohio Hopewell, Romain uses cognitive science, archaeology, and ethnology to propose that the shamanic world view results from psychological mechanisms that have a basis in our cognitive evolutionary development. The discussions in this volume of the most current theories concerning how early peoples came to believe in spirits and gods, as well as how those theories help account for what we find in the archaeological record of the Hopewell, are of interest to archaeologists and cognitive scientists alike.

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Information

Year
2009
eBook ISBN
9780759119079

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgments
  2. Chapter 1 Introduction
  3. Chapter 2 Theoretical Background and Methods
  4. Chapter 3 Hopewell Shamans
  5. Chapter 4 Hopewell Cosmology: Part I
  6. Chapter 5 Hopewell Cosmology: Part II
  7. Chapter 6 Roles of the Hopewell Shaman
  8. Chapter 7 Ways of the Hopewell Shaman
  9. Chapter 8 Afterword
  10. Notes
  11. References
  12. About the Author