The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image - Paperback
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Availability:In StockContributor:Leonard ShlainSeries:CompassAudience:Young AdultPublish date:1999-09-01Pages:496
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140196016ISBN-10:140196013UPC:9780140196016Book Category:Social Science, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Literacy, Feminism & Feminist TheorySize:8.44 x 5.56 x 1.11 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SCVXGM1S0E
The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image
This groundbreaking book proposes that the rise of alphabetic literacy reconfigured the human brain and brought about profound changes in history, religion, and gender relations. Making remarkable connections across brain function, myth, and anthropology, Dr. Shlain shows why pre-literate cultures were principally informed by holistic, right-brain modes that venerated the Goddess, images, and...
Series: Compass
Audience: Young Adult
Language:EnglishPublisher:Penguin BooksISBN-13:9780140196016ISBN-10:140196013UPC:9780140196016Book Category:Social Science, Language Arts & DisciplinesBook Subcategory:Anthropology, Literacy, Feminism & Feminist TheorySize:8.44 x 5.56 x 1.11 inchesWeight:0.9899Product ID:SCVXGM1S0E
Leonard Shlain is the author of Art & Physics: Parallel Visions in Space, Time & Light, and The Alphabet Versus the Goddess: The Conflict Between Word and Image. He is the chief of laparoscopic surgery at California Medical Center in San Francisco.
Publisher: Penguin Books
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