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E-bok
Engelska, 201087 kr
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“Atran explores the way terrorists think of themselves and teaches us, at last, intelligent ways to think about terrorists.” —Christopher Dickey, Newsweek Middle East Editor and author of Securing the CityTalking to the Enemy is an eye-opening and important book that offers a startling look deep inside terror groups. Based on the author’s unprecedented access to and in-depth interviews with terrorists and jihadis—including Al Qaeda, Hamas, and Taliban extremists and members of other radical organizations—Talking to the Enemy provides fresh insight and unexpected answers to why there are people in this world willing to kill and die for a cause. A riveting, compelling work in the tradition of The Looming Tower and Terror in the Name of God, Talking to the Enemy is required reading for anyone interested in making the world a safer, more secure place for everyone.“Scott Atran is one of the very few persons who understand religion and have figured out that religion is not about belief and cannot be naively replaced without severe side effects.” —Nassim Nicholas Taleb, New York Times-bestselling author of The Black Swan“Historically keen and astutely humanistic . . . the author’s deep penetration into anthropological explanations of evolution, teamwork, blood sport and war attempt to define what it means to be human.” —Kirkus ReviewsIncludes photographs
E-bok
Engelska, 2010122 kr
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Talking to the Enemy is an intellectually and personally courageous exploration of one of the most contentious issues of modern times. Scott Atran has spent years talking to terrorists - from Gaza and Afghanistan, to Indonesia and Europe - in order to help us understand and mitigate the rise of religious violence. Here he argues persuasively that we need to consider terrorists' close relationships, with family and friends, as much as the causes they espouse, and delivers a fascinating journey into the mindsets of radicalised people in the twenty-first century. Along the way, he also provides deep insights into the history of all religions, and into their evolutionary origins. He shows us, above all, how we have come to be human.More than any other book, Talking to the Enemy invites us to empathise; it is itself the best possible example of how to do it.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
486 kr
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This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements that have evolved in the human condition.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2004516 kr
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This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements that have evolved in the human condition.
E-bok
Engelska, 2004516 kr
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This ambitious, interdisciplinary book seeks to explain the origins of religion using our knowledge of the evolution of cognition. A cognitive anthropologist and psychologist, Scott Atran argues that religion is a by-product of human evolution just as the cognitive intervention, cultural selection, and historical survival of religion is an accommodation of certain existential and moral elements that have evolved in the human condition.
Häftad, Engelska, 2010
559 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1999
856 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 1993
560 kr
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What is it about human nature that makes our species capable of thinking scientifically? Inspired by the debate he set up between Noam Chomsky and Jean Piaget, Scott Atran traces the development of Natural History from Aristotle to Darwin, and demonstrates how the science of plants and animals has emerged from common conceptions of folk biology. The author proceeds not only from the more traditional philosophical, historical, or sociological perspectives, but from a point of view which he considers to be more basic and necessary to all of these: that of cognition. He applies a 'cognitive' perspective to an explanation of the successive scientific incarnations, transformations, and mutations of what Hume called 'mankind's original stock of ideas'.
E-bok
PDF, Engelska, 2020948 kr
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The Itza’ Maya of the Petén in Guatemala preside over a unique rainforest biosphere in danger of disappearing. Equally at risk is their own botanical knowledge, from taxonomy to medicinal uses. This volume contains a history of the Petén Itza’ Maya; explanation of Itza’ taxonomy; tables and keys to plant usage; common names in English, Spanish, and several indigenous languages; and much more.
E-bok
Franska, 2009226 kr
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Comment expliquer le poids culturel de la religion à travers l’histoire ? Pourquoi les idées surnaturelles sont-elles aussi répandues dans toutes les cultures ? Que nous apprennent la biologie, la psychologie, l’anthropologie et les sciences cognitives sur les différences et les similitudes entre les groupes religieux ? Et comment se fait-il que les explications religieuses des phénomènes naturels influent plus sur notre imaginaire collectif que les connaissances scientifiques ?Du point de vue de l’évolution, la religion ne devrait pas exister : elle est coûteuse en sacrifices matériels et en dépenses émotionnelles ; elle impose des efforts pour adhérer à des croyances qui défient le bon sens. Alors, pourquoi la religion ?Scott Atran passe en revue toutes les explications — sociologiques, psychologiques, neurologiques, métaphysiques — et montre leurs insuffisances. Et si le sacrifice de soi qu’impose toute religion servait avant tout à stabiliser l’ordre moral dans le groupe ? Ce faisant, n’incite-t-elle pas à la compétition avec d’autres groupes ? Et, dès lors, n’est-elle pas toujours source de guerre ?Appuyée par les recherches les plus originales et les plus actuelles, une puissante réévaluation du fait religieux au cœur même de l’humain. Scott Atran est directeur de recherches à l’Institut Jean-Nicod du CNRS. Anthropologue cognitiviste, il est professeur associé à l’Université du Michigan à Ann Arbor.