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Cosmogonies
Comment expliquer les ressemblances troublantes que l'on observe entre des mythes dont l'aire de répartition fait parfois le tour de la Terre, alors même que les populations auprès desquelles ils ont été recueillis, distantes dans l'espace ou dans le temps, n'ont pu se côtoyer ? Se pourrait-il que cet air de famille relève non de convergences fortuites, mais de véritables liens de parenté unissant des récits transmis de génération en génération au fil du peuplement humain de la planète ? En empruntant aux biologistes de l'évolution leurs méthodes statistiques de classification des espèces du vivant sous forme d'arbres phylogénétiques, cet ouvrage novateur montre comment d...
L'aube des mythes
On sait bien peu de choses sur la façon dont nos ancêtres préhistoriques concevaient la mort. Le faible nombre de sépultures paléolithiques attestées, la difficulté à interpréter les vestiges exhumés ou à attribuer l'enterrement et le traitement réservé aux corps à des rituels funéraires ne permettent guère d'en inférer des représentations. Pourtant, les humains qui nous ont précédés devaient avoir des croyances à propos de l'Au-delà. Leur refuser de s'être interrogés sur cette perspective, au même titre que nous le faisons, reviendrait à oublier notre appartenance commune à une même espèce. Mais comment combler les lacunes de l'archéologie ? Après Cosmogonies...
Le gai sçavoir: Mélanges en hommage à Jean-Loïc Le Quellec
These vibrant Mélanges celebrate the life and work of an exceptional scientist, Jean-Loïc Le Quellec. The book bears witness to the transdisciplinarity, rigour and benevolence that characterise this great scholar, and through diverse contributions explore themes dear to him: mythologies, folklore, cave arts, cultural heritage, and more.
Nouvelle Mythologie Comparee / New Comparative Mythology
Nouvelle Mythologie Comparee (New Comparative Mythology) est une publication pluridisciplinaire qui tentera de renouer avec les grandes heures de la mythologie comparee tout en evitant les defauts methodologiques de ses precurseurs. Inspiree, mais sans dogmatisme, a la fois par le structuralisme de Claude Levi-Strauss et de Georges Dumezil, par la linguistique de Calvert Watkins, ou par la semiologie de Vyacheslav Ivanov ou de Julien-Algirdas Greimas, elle publiera des travaux qui non seulement reposeront sur une base philologique et historique solide, mais pourront s'ouvrir a des disciplines connexes telles que la linguistique, l'archeologie ou l'ethnologie. Les articles auront pour but d'expliquer, par le biais du comparatisme, les grands mythes du monde, sans barriere geographique ni temporelle, en s'interessant a leur sens, a leur structure et a leur evolution historique.
Maths Meets Myths: Quantitative Approaches to Ancient Narratives
With an emphasis on exploring measurable aspects of ancient narratives, Maths Meets Myths sets out to investigate age-old material with new techniques. This book collects, for the first time, novel quantitative approaches to studying sources from the past, such as chronicles, epics, folktales, and myths. It contributes significantly to recent efforts in bringing together natural scientists and humanities scholars in investigations aimed at achieving greater understanding of our cultural inheritance. Accordingly, each contribution reports on a modern quantitative approach applicable to narrative sources from the past, or describes those which would be amenable to such treatment and why they are important. This volume is a unique state-of-the-art compendium on an emerging research field which also addresses anyone with interests in quantitative approaches to humanities.
Making Sense of "God"
All over the world people talk about God and argue endlessly about what God said and what, if anything, we should do about it. Do they know what are they talking about? Do they ever seriously consider what it might look like or feel like if God actually spoke to you? How could you tell, if someone said God spoke to them, whether they were deluded, bluffing, or high on drugs? The reflections, dialogues, and arguments in this book address such questions, often with humor, sometimes provocatively as when the author suggests the ancient gods have returned to invade the institutions of our great religions, or when two spirits, William and James, viewing the world from afar, voice their doubt as to whether the human species will ever attain the pinnacles of cooperation, reason, beauty, and love. Ancient texts from the Mayan Popol Vuh through the Bible to the Chinese classics are invoked, and the discoveries of modern science from anthropology to zoology are brought into play as the reader is gently led to an appreciation of the role of religious language in modern society.
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The Human Cosmos
For most of human history, we have had a close relationship with the stars. Once they shaped our religious beliefs, power structures, scientific advances and even our biology. But over the last few centuries we have separated ourselves from the universe that surrounds us. And it comes at a cost. The Human Cosmos is a tour of this history: from the Hall of the Bulls in Lascaux to Tahitian sailors navigating by the stars; from medieval monks grappling with the nature of time to Einstein realising that space and time are the same. It shows we need to rediscover the universe we inhabit, its effect on our health, and its potential for inspiration and revelation.
On the Origin of Myths in Catastrophic Experience, vol. 1: Preliminaries
Creation myths around the world reveal an intricate network of recurrent motifs. Many of these are counterintuitive and not widely known, describing a time when the sky was low, the stars did not yet shine, multiple suns appeared, the moon was brighter than the sun, no land existed, deities and mortals maintained frequent contact, a 'world axis' in the form of a tree, ladder or giant man connected the earth with the sky, a devastating flood or fire ended the old order, and so forth. The present work, in multiple volumes, aims to find an origin for this cross-culturally and internally consistent body of traditions in a series of extraordinary natural events relating especially to the earth's ...
The Indo-Europeans
The existence of an Indo-European linguistic family, allowing for the fact that several languages widely dispersed across Eurasia share numerous traits, has been demonstrated for several centuries now. But the underlying factors for this shared heritage have been fiercely debated by linguists, historians, archaeologists, and anthropologists. The leading theory, of which countless variations exist, argues that this similarity is best explained by the existence, at one given point in time and space, of a common language and corresponding population. This ancient, prehistoric, population would then have diffused across Eurasia, eventually leading to the variation observed in historical and mode...
