神話の認知科学：ヒトの心が現実から神話を産み出すまで When They Severed Earth from Sky : How the Human Mind Shapes Myth

神話の認知科学：ヒトの心が現実から神話を産み出すまで<br>When They Severed Earth from Sky : How the Human Mind Shapes Myth

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神話の認知科学：ヒトの心が現実から神話を産み出すまで
When They Severed Earth from Sky : How the Human Mind Shapes Myth

Barber, Elizabeth Wayland/ Barber, Paul T.

ウェブストア価格 ¥8,473（本体¥7,703）
Princeton University Press（2006/09発売）
外貨定価 US$ 41.00
ポイント 77pt

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製本 Paperback:紙装版/ペーパーバック版／ページ数 312 p.
言語 ENG
商品コード 9780691127743
DDC分類 201.3

基本説明

New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2004. Keys to the hidden history encoded in myths. Recent studies of how our brains work, applied to a wide range of data from the Pacific Northwest to ancient Egypt to modern stories reported in newspapers, have helped the Barbers deduce the characteristic principles.

Full Description

Why were Prometheus and Loki envisioned as chained to rocks? What was the Golden Calf? Why are mirrors believed to carry bad luck? How could anyone think that mortals like Perseus, Beowulf, and St. George actually fought dragons, since dragons don't exist? Strange though they sound, however, these "myths" did not begin as fiction. This absorbing book shows that myths originally transmitted real information about real events and observations, preserving the information sometimes for millennia within nonliterate societies. Geologists' interpretations of how a volcanic cataclysm long ago created Oregon's Crater Lake, for example, is echoed point for point in the local myth of its origin. The Klamath tribe saw it happen and passed down the story--for nearly 8,000 years. We, however, have been literate so long that we've forgotten how myths encode reality. Recent studies of how our brains work, applied to a wide range of data from the Pacific Northwest to ancient Egypt to modern stories reported in newspapers, have helped the Barbers deduce the characteristic principles by which such tales both develop and degrade through time.
Myth is in fact a quite reasonable way to convey important messages orally over many generations--although reasoning back to the original events is possible only under rather specific conditions. Our oldest written records date to 5,200 years ago, but we have been speaking and mythmaking for perhaps 100,000. This groundbreaking book points the way to restoring some of that lost history and teaching us about human storytelling.

*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