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Author: Paul A. Trout Publisher: Prometheus Books ISBN: 1616145021 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 316
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In this illuminating and evocative exploration of the origin and function of storytelling, the author goes beyond the work of mythologist Joseph Campbell, arguing that mythmaking evolved as a cultural survival strategy for coping with the constant fear of being killed and eaten by predators. Beginning nearly two million years ago in the Pleistocene era, the first stories, Trout argues, functioned as alarm calls, warning fellow group members about the carnivores lurking in the surroundings. At the earliest period, before the development of language, these rudimentary "stories" would have been acted out. When language appeared with the evolution of the ancestral human brain, stories were recited, memorized, and much later written down as the often bone-chilling myths that have survived to this day. This book takes the reader through the landscape of world mythology to show how our more recent ancestors created myths that portrayed animal predators in four basic ways: as monsters, as gods, as benefactors, and as role models. Each incarnation is a variation of the fear-management technique that enabled early humans not only to survive but to overcome their potentially incapacitating fear of predators. In the final chapter, Trout explores the ways in which our visceral fear of predators is played out in the movies, where both animal and human predators serve to probe and revitalize our capacity to detect and survive danger. Anyone with an interest in mythology, archaeology, folk tales, and the origins of contemporary storytelling will find this book an exciting and provocative exploration into the natural and psychological forces that shaped human culture and gave rise to storytelling and mythmaking.
Author: Paul A. Trout Publisher: Prometheus Books ISBN: 1616145021 Category : Nature Languages : en Pages : 316
Book Description
In this illuminating and evocative exploration of the origin and function of storytelling, the author goes beyond the work of mythologist Joseph Campbell, arguing that mythmaking evolved as a cultural survival strategy for coping with the constant fear of being killed and eaten by predators. Beginning nearly two million years ago in the Pleistocene era, the first stories, Trout argues, functioned as alarm calls, warning fellow group members about the carnivores lurking in the surroundings. At the earliest period, before the development of language, these rudimentary "stories" would have been acted out. When language appeared with the evolution of the ancestral human brain, stories were recited, memorized, and much later written down as the often bone-chilling myths that have survived to this day. This book takes the reader through the landscape of world mythology to show how our more recent ancestors created myths that portrayed animal predators in four basic ways: as monsters, as gods, as benefactors, and as role models. Each incarnation is a variation of the fear-management technique that enabled early humans not only to survive but to overcome their potentially incapacitating fear of predators. In the final chapter, Trout explores the ways in which our visceral fear of predators is played out in the movies, where both animal and human predators serve to probe and revitalize our capacity to detect and survive danger. Anyone with an interest in mythology, archaeology, folk tales, and the origins of contemporary storytelling will find this book an exciting and provocative exploration into the natural and psychological forces that shaped human culture and gave rise to storytelling and mythmaking.
Author: Andrea Bartoletti Publisher: Cornell University Press ISBN: 1501765922 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 252
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Encirclement, Andrea Bartoletti argues, is an essential strategic possibility of the international system and a key trigger of major war. Using historical case studies, Escaping the Deadly Embrace examines how great powers try to escape the two-front war problem and seek to preserve their security. Encirclement is a geographic variable that occurs in the presence of one or two great powers on two different borders of the surrounded great power. The surrounding great powers may not have the capacity to initiate a joint invasion. Yet their threatening presence triggers a double security dilemma for the encircled great power, which has to disperse its army to secure its borders. When the surrounding great powers become capable of launching a two-front attack, the encircled great power initiates war. This situation, disastrous in itself, can also lead to war contagion when other great powers intervene in the new conflict owing to the rival-based network of alliances. Combining archival work and historiographical analysis, Escaping the Deadly Embrace demonstrates the efficacy of this by assessing three major wars: the Italian Wars, the Thirty Years' War, and World War I. These findings, Bartoletti shows, have important implications for future major wars. Challenging the current focus on the US-China rivalry, he argues that the most concerning strategic scenario is the encirclement of China by India and Russia.
Author: Tella Olayeri Publisher: GOD'S LINK VENTURES ISBN: Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 51
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This book is a destiny repairer book. A book that will let you alight from vehicle of stagnancy and failure, and occupy coast of breakthrough. Powers of darkness are furious and wicked. They prolong the stay of many in the wilderness and are ready to do more. Since victims of these deadly criminals refuse to pray violent prayers, they remain captives. You don’t romance with enemy, it kills. To avoid this, the book in your hand is written to stop their boast, threat and wickedness. You can perfectly go to war if you are well-equipped and brave enough to face the enemy. Learn the act to command the night with missile prayers against deadly arrows of the enemy breathing wickedly to destroy you. It is for this purpose, the prayer book in your hand is written. You are welcome on board of liberation. This book shall silence every miracle diverting agent assign against you. Every inherited darkness in your life shall disappear while every strongman and woman in the corridor of your life shall be defeated. Your fear shall fall upon your enemies and they shall eventually surrender. Today is the day, obtain your copy.
Author: Rob Davis Publisher: Evershine Press Inc ISBN: 0997510811 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 304
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A simple day at work becomes a race for his life as loyal and patriotic Max discovers sensitive information that’s he not supposed to find. Thinking his friend and boss Mark is working with terrorists developing a new form of chemical weapons for mass destruction, Max enlists the help of his best friend Sam to foil the plans he discovered. Quickly Max is hiding out in FT Lauderdale before he and Sam fly to Jamaica where he discovers the truth. The US Government working with Mark has set a trap to stop a major terrorist group working in Afghanistan. Things don’t go quite as planned and Max and Sam learn their good life living in sunny Ft Lauderdale takes some serious turns as they become the hunted by both Jake a deranged psycho and the terrorists whose weapons supply they intended to stop.
Author: Jürgen Moltmann Publisher: Fortress Press ISBN: 9781451411898 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 436
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"This book, which in my opinion is Moltmann's best, can be recommended on the basis that it contains challenging and creative insights that can be used by the discriminating reader in the service of church renewal Moltmann represents the theology of liberation at its best, and those who wish to know more about this theology would do well to study this creative and searching theologian." --Donald G. Bloesch Christianity Today "Moltmann is perhaps unsurpassed among his contemporaries in keenness of insight and rhetorical power." --Daniel L. Migliore, Theology Today "Moltmann presents a stirring vision which every Christian community could well ponder With a missionary emphasis, he seeks to help the reader face the question of the church's identity in the light of the contemporary political, economic, and social scene." --Religious Education
Author: Bob Arnone Publisher: iUniverse ISBN: 1450205682 Category : Fiction Languages : en Pages : 392
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The seeds of a killer are sown as Billy Bonner suffers torture at the hands of his father and two older brothers on the family farm in Iowa. He commits his first two acts of murder when he is just twelve years old, and he spends the rest of his life avenging the abuse his family perpetrated on him. Forty-two-year-old Nick Powers, a seventeen-year veteran of the New York City Police Department, is assigned to investigate a special case. A serial killer is on the loose in New York City. Targeting victims over the age of sixty, this murderer disguises himself as a charming deliveryman, policeman, or priest. After gaining entrance to the victims’ homes, he hangs the women by their ankles while they bleed to death, and then he removes their eyes. The notes left at the scenes read: “She should have seen.” Powers vows to catch this diabolical killer who has successfully eluded twenty police departments for twenty years. But the chase becomes personal when the killer contacts Powers and threatens to harm his family
Author: Randall L. Schweller Publisher: Columbia University Press ISBN: 9780231110730 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 284
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Scholars frequently portray the Second World War as an epic morality play driven by a villain (Hitler) and a sinner (Chamberlain). Deadly Imbalances offers a new approach, combining both the attributes of states and the structure of the international system to explain the origins and causes of the war. Central to Schweller's analysis is the argument that the structure of the international system was tripolar--with Germany, the Soviet Union, and the United States as the three central powers--and that this needs to be considered in any examination of the antecedent causes and crucial events of the war.
Author: Matthew McAffee Publisher: Penn State Press ISBN: 1646020383 Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 391
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While topics such as death, funerary cult, and the netherworld have received considerable scholarly attention in the context of the Ugaritic textual corpus, the related concept of life has been relatively neglected. Life and Mortality in Ugaritic takes as its premise that one cannot grasp the significance of mwt (“to die”) without first having wrestled with the concept of ḥyy (“to live”). In this book, Matthew McAffee takes a lexical approach to the study of life and death in the Ugaritic textual corpus. He identifies and analyzes the Ugaritic terms most commonly used to talk about life and mortality in order to construct a more representative framework of the ancient perspective on these topics, and he concludes by synthesizing the results of this lexical study into a broader literary discussion that considers, among other things, the implications for our understanding of the first-millennium Katumuwa stele from Zincirli. McAffee’s study complements previous scholarly work in this area, which has tended to rely on conceptual and theoretical treatment of mortality, and advances the discussion by providing a more focused lexical analysis of the Ugaritic terms in question. It will be of interest to Semitic scholars and those who study Ugaritic in particular, in addition to students of the culture of the ancient Levant.
Author: Paul A. Trout
Author: Paul A. Trout
Author: Andrea Bartoletti
Author: Tella Olayeri
Author: Rob Davis
Author: Jürgen Moltmann
Author: Bob Arnone
Author: Randall L. Schweller
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Author: Matthew McAffee