Living Bodies, Dead Bodies, and the Cosmos

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Which concepts about humans, their physical existence, and the world are universal, and which are culturally specific and historically diverse? This volume presents sixteen case studies from a range of disciplines, including psychology and history, which delve into concepts related to the living body, the dead body, and the cosmos found in the cultural traditions of different eras and world regions, from ancient times to the present.
This volume presents a collection of essays exploring transculturally and historically recurring conceptions of the human body and the natural world. Sixteen case studies from a range of disciplines, including psychology and history, delve into concepts related to the living body, the dead body, and the cosmos found in the cultural traditions of different eras and world regions, from ancient times to the present. The contributions highlight the mutual interrelations of human conceptions of the body and the cosmos; they explore the role of physically grounded experiences in shaping such concepts and investigate different factors contributing to the universality as well as the historical variability of these concepts.

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Ulrike Steinert
Born 1976; 2007 PhD in Ancient Near Eastern Studies (Altorientalistik) from the University of Göttingen; Postdoctoral researcher at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz and Principal investigator of the DFG-funded project "Akkadian and Hittite Emotions in Context" at Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz.

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History of the body Comparative history of ideas Cosmologies Cultural universals

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