James B Harrod
Biographic Data
| ID | 1104802 |
|---|---|
| NAME | James B Harrod |
| GIVEN NAMES | James B |
| FAMILY NAME | Harrod |
| SIGNATURE | HARROD J B |
| AFFILIATIONS | International Society for Developmental Origins of Health and Disease |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Late Pleistocene, Upper Palaeolithic Sleds from eastern North America
A post-structuralist revised Weil–Lévi-Strauss transformation formula for conceptual value-fields
The structuralist André-Weil–Claude-Lévi-Strauss transformation formula (CF), initially applied to kinship systems, mythology, ritual, artistic design and architecture, was rightfully criticized for its rationalism and tendency to reduce complex transformations to analogical structures. I present a revised non-mathematical revision of the CF, a general transformation formula (rCF) applicable to networks of complementary semantic binaries in conce…
The Case for Chimpanzee Religion
Do chimpanzees engage in religious behaviors? To date this question remains unanswered. I use methods from religious studies and anthropology of religion that demonstrate an answer in the af?rmative. A comprehensive review of primatology reports reveals that chimpanzees do perform ritualized patterns of behavior in response to birth, death, consortship, and elemental natural phenomena. A structuralist analysis of these patterns shows that chimpan…
A Trans-Species Definition of Religion
To advance knowledge of the evolution and prehistory of religions over the past two million years of human evolution, it would be useful to know whether other species, including great apes and extinct species of Australopithecines and Homo prior to Homo sapiens sapiens, exhibit behaviors that might be categorized as ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual’. To determine this we need a precise and robust de?nition of religious behavior suitable for cross-specie…
The Bow: A Techno-Mythic Hermeneutic—Ancient Greece and the Mesolithic
Journal Article The Bow: A Techno-Mythic Hermeneutic—Ancient Greece and the Mesolithic Get access James B. Harrod James B. Harrod James B. Harrod (Ph.D., Syracuse) is presently N.E.H Humanist-in-Residence in Maine State Government. This essay is adapted from a paper delivered in absentia at Valcamonica Symposium III, "Intellectual Expressions of Prehistoric Man. Art and Religion," July 1979, which was an excerpt from a longer manuscript "Mesolith…
A post-structuralist revised Weil–Lévi-Strauss transformation formula for conceptual value-fields
The structuralist André-Weil–Claude-Lévi-Strauss transformation formula (CF), initially applied to kinship systems, mythology, ritual, artistic design and architecture, was rightfully criticized for its rationalism and tendency to reduce complex transformations to analogical structures. I present a revised non-mathematical revision of the CF, a general transformation formula (rCF) applicable to networks of complementary semantic binaries in conce…
A Trans-Species Definition of Religion
To advance knowledge of the evolution and prehistory of religions over the past two million years of human evolution, it would be useful to know whether other species, including great apes and extinct species of Australopithecines and Homo prior to Homo sapiens sapiens, exhibit behaviors that might be categorized as ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual’. To determine this we need a precise and robust de?nition of religious behavior suitable for cross-specie…
The Bow: A Techno-Mythic Hermeneutic—Ancient Greece and the Mesolithic
Journal Article The Bow: A Techno-Mythic Hermeneutic—Ancient Greece and the Mesolithic Get access James B. Harrod James B. Harrod James B. Harrod (Ph.D., Syracuse) is presently N.E.H Humanist-in-Residence in Maine State Government. This essay is adapted from a paper delivered in absentia at Valcamonica Symposium III, "Intellectual Expressions of Prehistoric Man. Art and Religion," July 1979, which was an excerpt from a longer manuscript "Mesolith…
A Trans-Species Definition of Religion
To advance knowledge of the evolution and prehistory of religions over the past two million years of human evolution, it would be useful to know whether other species, including great apes and extinct species of Australopithecines and Homo prior to Homo sapiens sapiens, exhibit behaviors that might be categorized as ‘religious’ or ‘spiritual’. To determine this we need a precise and robust de?nition of religious behavior suitable for cross-specie…
The Case for Chimpanzee Religion
Do chimpanzees engage in religious behaviors? To date this question remains unanswered. I use methods from religious studies and anthropology of religion that demonstrate an answer in the af?rmative. A comprehensive review of primatology reports reveals that chimpanzees do perform ritualized patterns of behavior in response to birth, death, consortship, and elemental natural phenomena. A structuralist analysis of these patterns shows that chimpan…
A post-structuralist revised Weil–Lévi-Strauss transformation formula for conceptual value-fields
The structuralist André-Weil–Claude-Lévi-Strauss transformation formula (CF), initially applied to kinship systems, mythology, ritual, artistic design and architecture, was rightfully criticized for its rationalism and tendency to reduce complex transformations to analogical structures. I present a revised non-mathematical revision of the CF, a general transformation formula (rCF) applicable to networks of complementary semantic binaries in conce…
Late Pleistocene, Upper Palaeolithic Sleds from eastern North America
Philosophy (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Anthropology (2 works) · Archaeology (2 works) · Art (2 works) · Evolutionary Game Theory and Cooperation (2 works) · Homo sapiens (2 works) · Prehistory (2 works)