Demystifying mentalities
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6546233 |
|---|---|
| Authors | G E R Lloyd (0000-0003-2626-4082) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Pages | 174 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | BOOK |
| Venue | Demystifying mentalities (SOURCE_BOOK) |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1017/cbo9780511607691 |
| ISBN | 9780521366809, 9780511607691 |
| Open Library | OL2191099M, OL34443208M |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 188 |
If faraway peoples have different ideas from our own, is this because they have different mentalities? Did our remote ancestors lack logic? The notion of distinct mentalities has been used extensively by historians to describe and explain cultural diversity. Professor Lloyd rejects this psychologising talk of mentalities and proposes an alternative approach, which takes as its starting point the social contexts of communication. Discussing apparently irrational beliefs and behaviour (such as magic), he shows how different forms of thought coexist in a single culture but within conventionally defined contexts.
Belief and doubt · Cognition and culture · Cross-cultural studies · Evidence · Science · Cognition · History · Philosophy
Review Essay
Cambridge Companion to Literature and Science
Cambridge History of Atheism
Spectacles of truth in classical Greek philosophy
The clash of ontologies and the problems of translation and mutual intelligibility
Edição completa
Do mundo como representação à multiplicidade das formas de representação do passado
How do We Know the Ancient Slavs also Knew Gnomons
How not to explain the Great Divide
Data Venia
Historicizing Fertility
Lycurgus of Boutadai
Metamorphoses of Tradition
Dynamics of the Greek ‘Breakthrough’
A Sense of Agency
Classics and Colonialism
Platonism and Pythagoreanism in the early empire
Xenophon and Isocrates
Naturalism
The Orators
Socrates and Plato
Documentation and Argument in Early China
Drawing Lots for Polis Office
Lotteries Divine and Human
Drawing Lots on the Athenian Stage
Conclusions and Implications
Envoi
Lyric Oblivion
Literacy in Greek and Chinese Science
Introduction
Memory, the Orators, and the Public in Fourth-century bc Athens
Economies of Memory in Greek Tragedy
Christianity
Plotinus on Memory, Recollection and Discursive Thought
The Peripatos after Aristotle
Justice and the polis
The Place and Nature of Memory in Greek Historiography
Reflecting on Writing and Culture
The Greek Philosophers on How to Memorise – and Learn
The Roman Empire
Epilogue
Reflections of Roman political thought in Latin historical writing
Aristophanes and his Muses, or Memory in a Comic Key
Introduction
Prose Performance Texts
From Letters to Literature
The Cynics
Plotinus
Hellenistic Cultural Memory
Josephus
The Heritage Left to the Empires
Poets, lawgivers, and the beginnings of political reflection in archaic Greece
Herodotus, Thucydides and the sophists
Cicero
Claudius Aelianus
Writing Religion
Writing, Law, and Legal Practice in the Athenian Courts
Is Memory of the Past?
The Jurists
Kings and constitutions
Greek political thought
Stoic writers of the imperial era
Seneca and Pliny
Letters of the Law
Speaking in the Wax Tablets of Memory
Making Magic
Literacy and Literacies
Situational Salience and Cultural Differences in the Correspondence Bias and Actor-Observer Bias
Culture and point of view
Culture and systems of thought
The Ethical Power of Music
Plato in his Time and Place
Socrates
Cleitophon and Minos
La naissance de la philosophie de l’esprit de la tradition
The Art and Architecture of the Warring States Period
Science Fiction to Science Studies
The Classical Philosophical Writings
Shang Archaeology
Approaching the Republic
Writing Philosophy
Aristotelian constitutions
Greek drama and political theory
The Laws
Democritus
Writing for Reading
Language and Writing
Western Zhou History
Plato and practical politics
The Northern Frontier in Pre–Imperial China
The Shang
Warring States Political History
Aristotle
Epicurean and Stoic political thought
The Politicus and other dialogues
Western Zhou Archaeology
China on the Eve of the Historical Period
Ancient Greece, early China
Aging, Culture, and Cognition
Pānini and Euclid
| Citations per year | 5.7 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1993 - 2025 (33) |
| Highly cited | Yes |