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Bottoms, Nancy Rogers.

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Between the material and the transcendent: A mythographical study of sacrifice and rituals of return.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Between the material and the transcendent: A mythographical study of sacrifice and rituals of return./
Author:	Bottoms, Nancy Rogers.
Description:	93 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Elizabeth Minnich.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International63-05A.
Subject:	Art History. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3052394
ISBN:	0493669469

Between the material and the transcendent: A mythographical study of sacrifice and rituals of return.
Bottoms, Nancy Rogers.

Between the material and the transcendent: A mythographical study of sacrifice and rituals of return. - 93 p.

Adviser: Elizabeth Minnich.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Union Institute and University, 2002.

That commonalities exist in myths of diverse cultures presents a problem to scholars of myth. Working with the two major theories, the psychological and the diffusionist, which offer solutions to this problem, this dissertation presents a theory which proposes that the two may work together. The theory suggests that responding to the need for fundamental physiological acts like eating, sleeping, copulating, giving birth, and living through loss could have elicited fundamental, thus similar, mental and emotional responses among early humans. These similar responses would be likely to have been elicited frequently over time in separate communities, and in the presence of developing cognition, which would include language, could have contributed to what Jung calls “archetypes.” The movements of peoples and the resulting restructuring of communities in new environments with influences from different groups of people could account for the differences in the ways that the fundamental responses were refined into diverse myths and rituals having similar themes.

ISBN: 0493669469Subjects--Topical Terms:

635474
Art History.

Between the material and the transcendent: A mythographical study of sacrifice and rituals of return.
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520 $a That commonalities exist in myths of diverse cultures presents a problem to scholars of myth. Working with the two major theories, the psychological and the diffusionist, which offer solutions to this problem, this dissertation presents a theory which proposes that the two may work together. The theory suggests that responding to the need for fundamental physiological acts like eating, sleeping, copulating, giving birth, and living through loss could have elicited fundamental, thus similar, mental and emotional responses among early humans. These similar responses would be likely to have been elicited frequently over time in separate communities, and in the presence of developing cognition, which would include language, could have contributed to what Jung calls “archetypes.” The movements of peoples and the resulting restructuring of communities in new environments with influences from different groups of people could account for the differences in the ways that the fundamental responses were refined into diverse myths and rituals having similar themes.
520 $a The theory proposed uses the research of evolutionary psychologists to suggest a biological, or material, genesis of myth, which, once born, could have developed into ways of recognizing that the purely material can be transcended, that through death can come life and through pain, physical or emotional, can come strength.
520 $a The theme of sacrifice is used as an example in this mythographical study. There are two reasons for this choice. One, evidence of the widespread practice of sacrifice is abundant. Two, recent work by evolutionary psychologists using the theory of natural selection in their studies into the development of human cognition provides a basis for proposing a genesis for this particular mythic theme. The theory proposed does not attempt to reduce the emergence of myth to its evolutionary role, but rather to account for its emergence and complexity in cultures around the world.
520 $a This dissertation recognizes a chasm between wholly biological causal explanations and those which attribute creation to the transcendent. It also, however, suggests that when they are presented with incompatible ideas, human minds in community are not willing to completely reject some ideas in order to accept others. We are able to ‘play’ with opposing ideas, perhaps creating stories which eventually emerge as myth.
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