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Structural anthropology. --- Mythology. --- Totemism. --- Endogamy and exogamy --- Ethnology --- Mythology --- Religion --- Taboo --- Myths --- Legends --- Religions --- Folklore --- Gods --- Myth --- Anthropology, Structural

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Bantu-speaking peoples --- Mythology, African. --- Structural anthropology. --- Legends --- Structural anthropology --- Mythology, African --- Anthropology --- Social Sciences --- Folklore --- Bantus --- Ethnology --- Anthropology, Structural --- African mythology --- Prayer (Bantu religion) --- Folk tales --- Traditions --- Urban legends --- Folklore. --- Religion. --- Rites and ceremonies. --- Religion --- Rites and ceremonies --- Bantu --- Mythology.

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"Since his groundbreaking Violence and the Sacred and Things Hidden since the Foundation of the World, Rene Girard's mimetic theory has elucidated "the origins of culture." Girard posits that archaic religion (or "the sacred"), particularly in its dynamics of sacrifice and ritual, is a neglected and major key to unlocking the enigma of " how we became human." French philosopher of science Michel Serres states that Girard's theory provides a Darwinian concept of culture, because it "proposes a dynamic, shows an evolution and gives a universal explanation." This claim, however, has remained underscrutinized by scholars, and it is mostly overlooked within the natural and social sciences. Joining disciplinary worlds, this book aims to explore this ambitious claim, invoking viewpoints as diverse as evolutionary culture theory, cultural anthropology, archaeology, cognitive psychology, ethology, and philosophy. The contributors provide major evidence in favor of Girard's hypothesis. Equally, Girard's theory is presented as having the potential to become for the human and social sciences something akin to the integrating framework that present-day biological science owes to Darwin - - something compatible with it and complementary to it in accounting for the still remarkably little understood phenomenon of human emergence." --Cover.

Structural anthropology. --- Social evolution. --- Religion --- Human evolution --- Human beings --- Anthropology of religion. --- Anthropology, Cultural --- Biological Evolution --- Sociobiology --- Cultural Evolution --- Cultural evolution --- Cultural transformation --- Culture, Evolution of --- Culture --- Evolution --- Social change --- Religious anthropology --- Ethnology --- Evolution, Cultural --- Cultural Evolutions --- Evolutions, Cultural --- Genetics, Behavioral --- Evolution, Biological --- Anthropology, Structural --- Antiquity of human beings --- Origin of human beings --- Philosophy. --- Origin. --- methods --- Girard, Rene, --- Girard, René, --- Girard, René Noel, --- Zhirar, Rene, --- Criticism and interpretation. --- Social evolution --- Structural anthropology --- Anthropology of religion --- Origin --- Philosophy