Jeremy Narby

The Cosmic Serpent

DNA and the Origins of Knowledge

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A gripping investigation that opens up fresh perspectives on biology and anthropology to deliver an inspiring manifesto for unprejudiced scientific inquiry

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Phoenix
• 1999.
• Seitenzahl: 272
• Erscheinungstermin: 7. Oktober 1999
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 196mm x 129mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 236g
• ISBN-13: 9780753808511
• ISBN-10: 075380851X
• Artikelnr.: 09613561

Autorenporträt

Jeremy Narby

Inhaltsangabe

The Cosmic Serpent Chapter 1: Forest Television
Chapter 2: Anthropologists and Shamans
Chapter 3: The Mother of the Mother of Tobacco Is a Snake
Chapter 4: Enigma in Rio
Chapter 5: Defocalizing
Chapter 6: Seeing Correspondences
Chapter 7: Myths and Molecules
Chapter 8: Through the Eyes of an Ant
Chapter 9: Receptors and Transmitters
Chapter 10: Biology's Blind Spot
Chapter 11: "What Took You So Long?"
Notes
Bibliography
Acknowledgments
Permissions and Credits
Index
Bibliographic Index

Rezensionen

Books such as Narby's are at the cutting edge of contemporary thought . . . [The Cosmic Serpent] ought to be something of an intellectual cause celebre GUARDIAN