The Dragon and the Rainbow: Man’s Oldest Story: Ancient Languages and Civilizations, cartea 5
Autor Robert Blusten Limba Engleză Hardback – 27 sep 2023
The author demonstrates that both dragons and rainbows are cultural universals, that many of the traits that are attributed to dragons in widely separated parts of the planet are also attributed to rainbows, and that the number and antiquity of such shared traits cannot be attributed to chance or common inheritance, but rather to common cognitive pathways by which human psychology has responded to the natural environment in a wide array of cultures around the world.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9789004678293
ISBN-10: 9004678298
Pagini: 325
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Ancient Languages and Civilizations
ISBN-10: 9004678298
Pagini: 325
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.6 kg
Editura: Brill
Colecția Brill
Seria Ancient Languages and Civilizations
Notă biografică
Robert Blust (1940-2022) was a Professor of Linguistics at University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa. He was, and continues to be, the preeminent scholar of Austronesian comparative linguistics. An enormously prolific scholar, Blust had nearly 300 publications. In addition to being a world-famous linguist, he was also an avid writer of poetry.
Cuprins
Foreword
Preface
Preface by the Author
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
Prologue: Two Steps from Nature to Culture
1 From Rainbow to Rainbow Serpent
2 From Rainbow Serpent to Dragon
1 What, If Anything, Is a Dragon?
2 Why Dragons? Theories from A to Z
1 Naturalistic Theories of the Dragon: Cryptozoology
2 Symbolic Theories of the Dragon
3 Neo-Lamarckian Theories: The Dragon as Archetype
4 Diffusionist Theories
5 Other Theories
3 Dragons and Waterfalls
1 North America
2 The Caribbean and South America
3 Insular Southeast Asia
4 The Pacific
5 Africa
4 Dragons and Thunder/Lightning
5 The Ethnology of the Dragon
1 Central and East Asia
2 North America and Mexico
3 The Data
6 What, If Anything, Is a Rainbow?
1 Rainbows: Familiar and Fantastic
2 Portrayals of the Rainbow
3 Distributional Summary
7 The Ethnology of the Rainbow
1 How the Dragon Was Born
2 Mysteries of the Rainbow
3 Sunshowers
4 The Rainbow Taboo
8 A Glimpse of the Glory
1 Europe
2 Ancient Near East
9 Connecting the Dots
10 Conclusions
Appendix: Ethnic Groups Cited
References
Index
Preface
Preface by the Author
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Tables
Introduction
Prologue: Two Steps from Nature to Culture
1 From Rainbow to Rainbow Serpent
2 From Rainbow Serpent to Dragon
Part 1 Dragons
1 What, If Anything, Is a Dragon?
2 Why Dragons? Theories from A to Z
1 Naturalistic Theories of the Dragon: Cryptozoology
2 Symbolic Theories of the Dragon
3 Neo-Lamarckian Theories: The Dragon as Archetype
4 Diffusionist Theories
5 Other Theories
3 Dragons and Waterfalls
1 North America
2 The Caribbean and South America
3 Insular Southeast Asia
4 The Pacific
5 Africa
4 Dragons and Thunder/Lightning
5 The Ethnology of the Dragon
1 Central and East Asia
2 North America and Mexico
3 The Data
Part 2 Rainbows
6 What, If Anything, Is a Rainbow?
1 Rainbows: Familiar and Fantastic
2 Portrayals of the Rainbow
3 Distributional Summary
7 The Ethnology of the Rainbow
1 How the Dragon Was Born
2 Mysteries of the Rainbow
3 Sunshowers
4 The Rainbow Taboo
8 A Glimpse of the Glory
1 Europe
2 Ancient Near East
Part 3 Summing Up
9 Connecting the Dots
10 Conclusions
Appendix: Ethnic Groups Cited
References
Index