224 pages : illustrations (some color), map ; 25 cm
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Back in time -- Dance of life, dance of death -- 'These are sorcery's things' -- Discovering rain -- Capturing rain -- Truth hidden in error -- The imagistic web of myth -- Into the unknown -- 'Simple' people?
Summary
Deciphering ancient minds goes to the heart of contemporary arguments about 'primitive' and 'modern' minds and draws new social, anthropological, and ethnographic conclusions about the nature of ancient societies.
