Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased: From Corpse to Concept: 30 (Toronto Studies in Religion) - Hardcover
Inhaltsangabe
Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased traces mortuary behavior from the early fossil record to modern religious contexts in diverse cultural settings. By using archival and ethnographic evidence from Buddhist traditions, the author highlights the disparity between doctrines that contradict actual practices performed by Buddhists themselves. By appealing to the evolved cognitive architecture of human minds, this book argues that ritualized disposal behavior is the by-product of mental systems designed to handle living people. Due to complex social intelligence, humans are compelled to handle dead people in ritualized behaviors and to represent them in counterintuitive ways. The author also examines the professional religious guilds that have taken advantage of these ritualized compulsions over the last several thousand years, by giving and controlling the meanings behind these actions. Furthermore, experimental evidence is given to support this hypothesis, providing the first mature cognitive and evolutionary theory for mortuary behavior by humans.
Die Inhaltsangabe kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor
The Author: William W. McCorkle, Jr. is an evolutionary and cognitive anthropologist interested in ritual, language, and communication. He earned his Ph.D. from the Institute of Cognition and Culture at Queen’s University in Belfast, one of the world’s premiere centers for research on cognition, culture, and religion. He has conducted fieldwork in India and Japan and devised original experiments to test his theory on the ritualized burial of dead bodies by humans. He regularly gives papers and presentations internationally on ritual and human behavior. Most recently, he has served as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies at Webster University in St. Louis, Missouri.
„Über diesen Titel“ kann sich auf eine andere Ausgabe dieses Titels beziehen.
Weitere beliebte Ausgaben desselben Titels
Suchergebnisse für Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased: From Corpse...
Beispielbild für diese ISBN
Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased: From Corpse to Concept (Toronto Studies in Religion)
Verlag:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2010
ISBN 10: 1433107929
ISBN 13: 9781433107924
Gebraucht
Hardcover
Erstausgabe
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
Zustand: Used - Like New. 2010. First printing. Hardcover. Fine. Artikel-Nr. BR31281
Beispielbild für diese ISBN
Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased: From Corpse to Concept (Toronto Studies in Religion)
Verlag:
Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publishers, 2010
ISBN 10: 1433107929
ISBN 13: 9781433107924
Gebraucht
Hardcover
Anbieter: Powell's Bookstores Chicago, ABAA, Chicago, IL, USA
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
Zustand: Used - Very Good. 2010. Hardcover. Cloth, no dj. Minor shelf-wear. Very Good. Artikel-Nr. SOL22418
Foto des Verkäufers
Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased
Verlag:
Peter Lang, Peter Lang Feb 2010, 2010
ISBN 10: 1433107929
ISBN 13: 9781433107924
Neu
Hardcover
Anbieter: buchversandmimpf2000, Emtmannsberg, BAYE, Deutschland
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Neuware -Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased traces mortuary behavior from the early fossil record to modern religious contexts in diverse cultural settings. By using archival and ethnographic evidence from Buddhist traditions, the author highlights the disparity between doctrines that contradict actual practices performed by Buddhists themselves. By appealing to the evolved cognitive architecture of human minds, this book argues that ritualized disposal behavior is the by-product of mental systems designed to handle living people. Due to complex social intelligence, humans are compelled to handle dead people in ritualized behaviors and to represent them in counterintuitive ways. The author also examines the professional religious guilds that have taken advantage of these ritualized compulsions over the last several thousand years, by giving and controlling the meanings behind these actions. Furthermore, experimental evidence is given to support this hypothesis, providing the first mature cognitive and evolutionary theory for mortuary behavior by humans.Books on Demand GmbH, Überseering 33, 22297 Hamburg 202 pp. Englisch. Artikel-Nr. 9781433107924
Neu kaufen
EUR 100,00
Versand:
EUR 60,00
Von Deutschland nach USA
Anzahl: 2 verfügbar
Foto des Verkäufers
Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased : From Corpse to Concept
Anbieter: AHA-BUCH GmbH, Einbeck, Deutschland
Verkäuferbewertung 5 von 5 Sternen
Buch. Zustand: Neu. Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - Ritualizing the Disposal of the Deceased traces mortuary behavior from the early fossil record to modern religious contexts in diverse cultural settings. By using archival and ethnographic evidence from Buddhist traditions, the author highlights the disparity between doctrines that contradict actual practices performed by Buddhists themselves. By appealing to the evolved cognitive architecture of human minds, this book argues that ritualized disposal behavior is the by-product of mental systems designed to handle living people. Due to complex social intelligence, humans are compelled to handle dead people in ritualized behaviors and to represent them in counterintuitive ways. The author also examines the professional religious guilds that have taken advantage of these ritualized compulsions over the last several thousand years, by giving and controlling the meanings behind these actions. Furthermore, experimental evidence is given to support this hypothesis, providing the first mature cognitive and evolutionary theory for mortuary behavior by humans. Artikel-Nr. 9781433107924
Neu kaufen
EUR 100,00
Versand:
EUR 62,20
Von Deutschland nach USA
Anzahl: 1 verfügbar