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An anatomy of witchcraft : between cognitive sciences and history
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"Much has been written on witchcraft by historians, theologians, philosophers, and anthropologists, but nothing by scientists. This book aims to reappraise witchcraft by applying to it the advances...
"Much has been written on witchcraft by historians, theologians, philosophers, and anthropologists, but nothing by scientists. This book aims to reappraise witchcraft by applying to it the advances in cognitive sciences. The book is divided into four parts. Part One: Deep History deals with human emotions and drives to deepen the phenomenology of evil witchcraft agency and its female feature. Part Two: Historical Times focuses on the natural control of malefice that engendered rare state and church repressions. Surprisingly, Islamic lands remained immune from stakes. Modern urbanizations are considered a blow to the persistence of rural civilizations that embedded witchcraft in their vision. Part Three: In the Laboratory applies neurosciences to specific case studies such as the personalization of misfortune, the millenary stereotype witch=woman, the reality of evil, and the contagious meme of treasure hunts. Part Four: Millennials wonders whether intentional malefic hatred is a closed chapter in the history of humanity. An Anatomy of Witchcraft is ideal reading for students and scholars. Given its interdisciplinary nature, the book will be of interest to scholars from many fields including evolutionary psychology, anthropology, women's history, and cognitive sciences"--
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- Creator
- Oscar Di Simplicio and Martina Di Simplicio
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- Language
- English
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- London : Routledge, an imprint of the Taylor & Francis Group, 2024
- ©2024
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- xii, 262 pages ; 24 cm
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- 103253933X, 9781003414377, 9781003801009, 9781032539331, 1032539348, 9781032539348
- OCLC
- on1412503520, on1402819652
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Part I. Deep history. Towards Homo sapiens -- Reciprocal altruism -- Prehistoric women -- Primary emotions : fear and anger -- Social emotions : empathy-shame-envy -- Drives : Eros -- Drives : seeking -- Evolved and abandoned : a standstill psychology? -- Looking for witchcraft -- Defining evil witchcraft -- Redefining evil witchcraft -- Part II. Historical times. Visions of the world -- Witchcraft and power -- A long walk : towards a magic-religion dichotomy -- Greece and Rome : the complementarity between magic and religion -- Greece and Rome : the ambiguous state control of witchcraft -- Christian transformations : the nuclear fallout -- Early modern witch-hunting : a cognitive puzzle? -- The disenchantment of the world -- The other monotheisms : Jewish and Islamic -- Part III. In the laboratory. Case study 1 : the personalization of damage -- Case study 2 : ambiguities of malefice--the evil eye -- Case study 3 : the reality of malefice -- Case study 4 : The stereotype witch = woman -- Case study 5 : an envious and factional community -- Case study 6 : anatomy of witchcraft -- Case study 7 : treasure hunting, or the simulator brain -- Part IV. Millennials. A look from above -- Conclusions