Quantum anthropology : man, cultures, and groups in a quantum perspective / Radek Trnka, Radmila Lorencová.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Trnka, Radek, author.

Lorencová, Radmila, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Anthropology.

Quantum theory.

Culture--Philosophy.

Culture.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (192 pages) : illustrations (some color)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Karolinum Press 2016

Prague : Karolinum, 2016.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Monografie prezentuje novou teoretickou perspektivu sociokulturní antropologie, která navazuje na aktuální zahraniční práce v tomto oboru. Kvantová antropologie opouští chápání člověka v pojetí klasické fyziky a hledá naopak ukotvení, které nabízí současná kvantová filozofie a teorie kvantové mechaniky. Z této perspektivy, a s odkazem na současný ontologický obrat v antropologii, reinterpretují autoři chápání kultury, sociálních skupin, jazyka, dekonstrukce, symbolů, mýtů či rituálů. Pozornost je věnována také podstatě percepční zkušenosti, prožívání, kolektivnímu vědomí a emocím. The book offers a fresh look on man, cultures, and societies built on the current advances in the fields of quantum mechanics, quantum philosophy, and quantum consciousness. The authors have developed an inspiring theoretical framework transcending the boundaries of particular disciplines in social sciences and the humanities. Quantum anthropology is a perspective, studying man, culture, and humanity while taking into account the quantum nature of our reality. This framework redefines current anthropological theory in a new light, and provides an interdisciplinary overlap reaching to psychology, sociology, and consciousness studies.

Contents:

Cover

Contents

Acknowledgments

Chapter 1 Introduction: Why Quantum Anthropology?

Chapter 2 Empirical and Nonempirical Reality

Chapter 3 Appearance, Frames, Intra-Acting Agencies, and Observer Effect

Chapter 4 Emergence of Man and Culture

Chapter 5 Fields, Groups, Cultures, and Social Complexity

Chapter 6 Man as Embodiment

Chapter 7 Collective Consciousness and Collective Unconscious in Anthropology

Chapter 8 Life Trajectories of Man, Cultures and Societies

Chapter 9 Death and Final Collapses of Cultures and Societies

Chapter 10 Language, Collapse of Wave Function, and Deconstruction

Chapter 11 Myth and Entanglement

Chapter 12 Ritual, Observer Effect, and Collective Consciousness

Chapter 13 Conclusions and Future Directions

Glossary

References

Index

About the authors.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 29, 2016).

ISBN:

9788024635262

8024635267

OCLC:

967094547