Instinct and Revelation: Reflections on the Origins of Numinous Perception Contributor(s): Oubre, Alondra (Author) |
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ISBN: 9056995286 ISBN-13: 9789056995287 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $60.79 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 1997 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Social Science | Anthropology - General - Psychology - Political Science |
Dewey: 155.7 |
Series: Optoelectronic Properties of Semiconductors and Superlattice |
Physical Information: 0.66" H x 5.98" W x 9.02" (0.93 lbs) 320 pages |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Instinct and Revelation revolves around the hypothesis that ritual behavior and imaginative awareness in early hominids may have helped to spawn the evolution of the human brain and human consciousness. Using an integral perspective comparable with systems theory, the book carefully interweaves fact and theory from physical and cultural anthropology, psychobiology and the brain sciences, psychology, and to a lesser degree, eastern philosophy. This book breaks from tradition by discussing from a primarily anthropological perspective the origin of human consciousness within a philosophical framework that embraces precepts from human evolution, evolutionary psychology, the neurosciences, biocultural anthropology, and cultural symbolic anthropology. |