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Shamans of the Lost World: A Cognitive Approach to the Prehistoric Religion of the Ohio Hopewell

Shamans of the Lost World: A Cognitive Approach to the Prehistoric Religion of the Ohio Hopewell

Romain, William F.

Paperback

Series: Issues in Eastern Woodlands Archaeology

Native American HistoryReligion General Archaeology

ISBN10: 0759119066
ISBN13: 9780759119062
Publisher: Altamira Press
Published: Nov 7 2011
Pages: 270
Weight: 0.96
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.34 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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