Research Catalog

Title

How we became human : mimetic theory and the science of evolutionary origins / edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Paul Gifford.

Publication

• East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2015]
• ©2015

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Details

Additional Authors

• Antonello, Pierpaolo
• Gifford, Paul

Description

liii, 351 pages : illustrations, map; 23 cm

Series Statement

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture

Uniform Title

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.

Subjects

• Social evolution
• Human beings > Origin
• Girard, René, 1923-2015 > Criticism and interpretation
• Religion > Philosophy
• Structural anthropology
• Anthropology of religion
• Human evolution > Philosophy

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Coevolution and mimesis / William H. Durham -- Genes and mimesis : structural patterns in Darwinism and mimetic theory / Paul Dumouchel -- Maladaptation, counterintuitiveness and symbolism : the challenge of mimetic theory to evolutionary thinking / Pierpaolo Antonello -- Convergence between mimetic theory and imitation research / Scott Garrels -- The deepest principle of life : neurobiology and the psychology of desire / William B. Hurlbut -- The three Rs : retaliation, revenge, and (especially) redirected aggression / David P. Barash -- Violent origins : mimetic rivalry in Darwinian evolution / Melvin Konner -- Mechanisms of internal cohesion : scapegoating and parochial altruism / Zoey Reeve -- A mediatory theory of hominization / Giuseppe Fornari -- Animal scapegoating at Çatalhöyük / René Girard -- Self-transcendence and tangled hierarchies in Çatalhöyük / Jean-Pierre Dupuy -- Rethinking the Neolithic revolution : symbolism and sacrifice at Göbekli Tepe / Paul Gifford and Pierpaolo Antonello -- Intrinsic or situated religiousness : a Girardian solution / Warren S. Brown, James Van Slyke, and Scott Garrels -- Homo religiosus in mimetic perspective : an evolutionary dialogue / Paul Gifford.

Call Number

JFE 15-6916

ISBN

• 9781611861730
• 161186173X
• 9781609174613 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781628952339 (canceled/invalid)
• 9781628962338 (canceled/invalid)

OCLC

908991038

Title

How we became human : mimetic theory and the science of evolutionary origins / edited by Pierpaolo Antonello and Paul Gifford.

Publisher

East Lansing : Michigan State University Press, [2015]

Copyright Date

©2015

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture

Studies in violence, mimesis, and culture.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Antonello, Pierpaolo, editor.

Gifford, Paul, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 15-6916