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Sifting Myths for Truths About Our World

Published:2005-05-27 Issue:5726 Volume:308 Page:1261-1262
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Baird Abigail A.¹

Affiliation:

1. The reviewer is at the Department of Psychological and Brain Sciences, Dartmouth College, 6207 Moore Hall, Hanover, NH 03755, USA.

Abstract

When They Severed Earth from Sky How the Human Mind Shapes Myth. By Elizabeth Wayland Barber and Paul T. Barber . Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 2004. 310 pp. $29.95, £18.95. ISBN 0-691-09986-3. The authors, archaeologists, argue that myths contain elements of truth about the natural world and that we can use them as artifacts of sorts.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Reference5 articles.

1. Donald M., Origins of the Modern Mind: Three Stages in the Evolution of Culture and Cognition (Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1991).

2. E. W. Barber is a professor of linguistics and archaeology at Occidental College; P. T. Barber is a research associate with the Fowler Museum of Cultural History at the University of California Los Angeles.

3. Chase R. V., Quest for Myth (Louisiana State Univ. Press, Baton Rouge, LA, 1949).

4. Bruner J. S., On Knowing: Essays for the Left Hand (Harvard Univ. Press, Cambridge, MA, 1962).

5. Schacter D. L., The Seven Sins of Memory: How the Mind Forgets and Remembers (Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 2001).

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