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From Earth Spirits to Sky Gods

The Socioecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism, and Hyperabstract Reasoning from the Stone Age to the Axial Iron Age

By: Bruce Lerro

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From Earth Spirits to Sky Gods

The Socioecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism, and Hyperabstract Reasoning from the Stone Age to the Axial Iron Age

By: Bruce Lerro

In this thought-provoking new book, Bruce Lerro offers a speculative reconstruction of the sacred beliefs and practices of cultures existing between 30,000 and 500 B.C.E. Lerro describes how material changes in various social formations--including hunting-gathering bands and horticulturalists in villages--were responsible for the shift from magic to realism, from the belief in earth spirits to faith in sky gods. Drawing from such diverse theorists as Marx and Engels, Vygotsky, Piaget, and George Herbert Mead, Lerro critiques and transforms mechanical, humanistic, new age, and countercultural perspectives on the history of sacred traditions. This study of comparative religion and mythology has important applications for the fields of archaeology, evolutionary anthropology, sociology, political science, and comparative psychology.

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Lexington Books

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073910098X

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9780739100981

Social Change

Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present

By: Christopher Chase-Dunn,Bruce Lerro

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Social Change

Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present

By: Christopher Chase-Dunn,Bruce Lerro

From the Stone Age to the Internet Age, this book tells the story of human sociocultural evolution. It describes the conditions under which hunter-gatherers, horticulturalists, agricultural states, and industrial capitalist societies formed, flourished, and declined. Drawing evidence from archaeology, ethnography, linguistics, historical documents, statistics, and survey research, the authors trace the growth of human societies and their complexity, and they probe the conflicts in hierarchies both within and among societies. They also explain the macro-micro links that connect cultural evolution and history with the development of the individual self, thinking processes, and perceptions. Key features of the text Designed for undergraduate and graduate social science classes on social change and globalization topics in sociology, world history, cultural geography, anthropology, and international studies. Describes the evolution of the modern capitalist world-system since the fourteenth century BCE, with coverage of the rise and fall of system leaders: the Dutch in the seventeenth century, the British in the nineteenth century, and the United States in the twentieth century. Provides a framework for analyzing patterns of social change. Includes numerous tables, figures, and illustrations throughout the text. Supplemented by framing part introductions, suggested readings at the end of each chapter, an end of text glossary, and a comprehensive bibliography. Offers a web-based auxiliary chapter on Indigenous North American World-Systems and a companion website with excel data sets and additional web links for students.

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466

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Routledge

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1317251970

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9781317251972

Social Change

Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present

By: Christopher Chase-Dunn,Bruce Lerro

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Globalization from the Stone Age to the Present

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1317251962

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9781317251965

From Earth Spirits to Sky Gods

The Socioecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism, and Hyperabstract Reasoning from the Stone Age to the Axial Iron Age

By: Bruce Lerro

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The Socioecological Origins of Monotheism, Individualism, and Hyperabstract Reasoning from the Stone Age to the Axial Iron Age

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Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized

By: Bruce Lerro

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Lucifer's Labyrinth: Individualism, Hyper-Abstract Thinking and the Process of Becoming Civilized

By: Bruce Lerro

The angel "Lucifer" was the bringer of light. However, this is not the light of love and harmony. Lucifer brings light to western humanity by inviting us to taste the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge. Lucifer's Labyrinth is the secular odyssey of what happened to humanity after we left the Garden, peppered by blind allies, thunder and lightning. Lucifer's Labyrinth treks from the Middle Ages through the Gilded Age.Unique features of this book include: -Interdisciplinary, spanning the fields of western history, macro-sociology, social history, politics, political economy, philosophy of science, comparative religion and psychology. Like the god Hermes, this book crosses the worlds.-Macro-micro link: Many books on Western history treat psychology as if it was insulated from historical processes and subject to laws of its own. Lucifer's Labyrinth argues that changes in technology, economics and politics determine what the direction of psychology is most likely to take.-Its unique Vygotskyan approach to Western history. In the United States Vygotsky is known as a child psychologist. Few realize that his colleague Alexander Luria applied Vygotsky's work to historical changes in peasant life after the Russian revolution. Lucifer's Labyrinth is one of the only books to apply Vygotsky's work to another historical period.-It poses provocative questions. What does the invention of coined money do to humanity's reasoning processes? Why did the printing press change the sense ratios? What is the difference between being civilized and being disciplined? Why did statistical reasoning only develop in the 17th century? What institutions need to emerge before Piaget's formal operations can function? Why do very few of Erikson's psycho-social stages of development apply to childhood, adolescence and adulthood before the 18th century?-There is an abundance of comparative tables which summarize sub-sections of chapters, guiding the reader from beginning to end. These tables give the reader a "snapshot" of a historical period or they depict a "movie" of howl spiritual or psychological process has evolved.-The book is scholarly without being academic. The book is dense but juicy. An educated lay reader can understand the general argument without any previous background. Bruce Lerro is a socio-historical psychologist in the traditional of Lev Vygotsky. He has been a college instructor for 27 years. Lucifer's Labyrinth is the sequel to his book Forging Promethean Psychology

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574

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0997467037

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9780997467031

Social Change and Evolution

By: Christopher Chase-Dunn,Professor Christopher Chase-Dunn,Bruce Lerro

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Social Change and Evolution

By: Christopher Chase-Dunn,Professor Christopher Chase-Dunn,Bruce Lerro

Primary text for courses in Social Change. Social change is usually understood to be mainly a matter of recent trends. The authors believe that trends and recent events need to be understood in their world historical context if we are to know their implications for action. The framework presented in this book allows the reader to see the trends and events of the recent past in terms of the patterns of social change that have been occurring for decades, centuries and millennia. By tracing the growth of settlement systems and interaction networks we can explain the processes of institutional transformation the development of technology, information systems, moral orders, markets, and political structures -- that have made it possible for us to live in large and complex societies. The theoretical framework is based on the comparative world-systems perspective, a macrosociological approach to world history that examines groups of interacting societies rather than individual societies as if they were in isolation from other societies.

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448

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Allyn & Bacon

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0205381421

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9780205381425

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