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When they severed earth from sky: how the human mind shapes myth

E. J. W. Barber and Paul Barber
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • List of Illustrations (page xi)
  • Acknowledgments (page xvii)
  • 1 Time Capsules (page 1)
  • 2 The Memory Crunch: How Long a Pipeline? (page 5)
  • 3 The Silence Principle: Of Lethe and the Golden Calf (page 17)
  • 4 More Silence: Movie Reels from Snapshots (page 26)
  • 5 Analogy: Our Brain's Best Talent (page 34)
  • 6 Willfulness: The Atom or Thou (page 41)
  • 7 Multiple Aspects: The More the Merrier (page 53)
  • 8 Multiple Viewpoints: Ear,Trunk, or Tail (page 71)
  • 9 Views through Biased Lenses (page 89)
  • 10 Metaphoric Reality: Magic and Dreams (page 96)
  • 11 Compression:Methuselah and the Eponymous Heroes (page 113)
  • 12 Post Hocus Ergo Pocus: Space Aliens Mutilate Cows! (page 129)
  • 13 Restructuring: New Patterns for Old (page 139)
  • 14 Mnemonics: Behind the Silliness (page 153)
  • 15 The Spirit World: A Realm Reversed (page 162)
  • 16 Of Sky and Time (page 176)
  • 17 Prometheus (page 218)
  • 18 Fire-Breathing Dragons (page 231)
  • Appendix: Index of Myth Principles (page 245)
  • Bibliography (page 253)
  • Index (page 265)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
JR 86.4 (Oct. 2006): 716-717 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/509695
JHS 126 (2004): 144-148 http://www.jstor.org/stable/30033405
WF 65.4 (Fall 2006): 484-486 http://www.jstor.org/stable/25474832
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Published: c2004
Publisher: Princeton University Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9780691099866 (hardcover)
  • 9780691127743 (paper)
  • 9781400842865 (ebook)
Subject
  • Comparative/World
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