Wild Hunger: The Primal Roots of Modern AddictionRowman & Littlefield, 27/10/1999 - 304 من الصفحات Why is it that even amidst affluence and power, our culture is plagued by a variety of addiction? In this pioneering book, the author searchers for answers by giving serious attention to our genetic legacy from our hunter-gatherer ancestors as well as to the unique ways we adapt to our environment through the practice of science addiction - including drugs, alcohol, cigarettes, and gambling - suggesting that wilderness exploration, in the arts, myths, and ceremonies, can help us rediscover what it means to be human creatures. Bringing together the insights of philosophy, religion, cultural anthropology, behavioural biology, and the vast socio-medical literature on addiction. The author ingeniously explores the limits of our adaptive capacity and the costs of depleting the natural regenerative functions of the body. |
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Hunger for Ecstatic Connectedness | ix |
Natures Regenerative Cycles | 1 |
Ecstasy Deprivation and Addictive Remedies | 3 |
Rediscovering Space Time Body Self | 29 |
Circular Power Returning into Itself | 47 |
The Intimate Otherness of BodySelfs World Addiction As Frightened Response | 59 |
Addiction Circular Power ShortCircuited | 81 |
The More Than Merely Human Hunger to Belong | 83 |
Body Nose Viscera Earth | 149 |
Art and Truth | 169 |
Harmony with Nature | 191 |
Mother Nature Circular Power Returning into Itself | 193 |
Technology As Ecstasy How Do We Deal with It? | 221 |
The Awesome World | 249 |
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Acknowledgments | 277 |
Medical Materialism and the Fragmented Grasp of Addiction | 95 |
Possession Addiction Fragmentation Is a Healing Community Possible? | 123 |
Smoking As Ritual Smoking As Addiction | 135 |
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