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On deep history and the brain / Daniel Lord Smail.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Ahmanson Foundation book in the humanitiesPublication details: Berkeley : University of California Press, ©2008.Description: 1 online resource (xiv, 271 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780520934160
  • 0520934164
  • 9781435603981
  • 1435603982
  • 1282359347
  • 9781282359345
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: On deep history and the brain.DDC classification:
  • 901 22
LOC classification:
  • D16.9
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Contents:
Introduction: toward reunion in history -- The grip of sacred history -- Resistance -- Between Darwin and Lamarck -- The new neurohistory -- Civilization and psychotropy -- Epilogue: Looking ahead.
Summary: When does history begin? What characterizes it? This book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. It lays out a new case for bringing neuroscience and neurobiology into the realm of history.
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"A Caravan book"--T.p. verso

Includes bibliographical references (pages 229-246) and index.

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Introduction: toward reunion in history -- The grip of sacred history -- Resistance -- Between Darwin and Lamarck -- The new neurohistory -- Civilization and psychotropy -- Epilogue: Looking ahead.

When does history begin? What characterizes it? This book dissolves the logic of a beginning based on writing, civilization, or historical consciousness and offers a model for a history that escapes the continuing grip of the Judeo-Christian time frame. It lays out a new case for bringing neuroscience and neurobiology into the realm of history.

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