Legends, 90
Lenin, V. I., 91
Leslie, Alan, 103, 109, 130
Lineages, 289
Literacy, 274. See also Guilds, literate
Living/nonliving things, 77, 108, 112.
See also Animacy system; Artifacts
Loyalty, 127, 183, 246, 248
Lumsden, C., 34
Lying, 178
McCauley, Robert, 258–261, 322
Madonna (as artifact), 86, 226
Magic, 133–134, 252, 253
Malaysia, 157, 208, 217
Marking occasions, 246
Marriage, 246–247, 247–248, 254–255,
256, 257, 258, 260, 261, 269
Mathematics, 41. See also Arithmetic
Mayan empire, 274
Mayotte islanders, 70, 82
Mediumship, 266–267, 269, 271, 286
Melanesia, 19, 284
Meltzoff, Andrew, 110
Memes, 35, 37–40, 46
Memory, 33, 37, 45, 46, 88, 95, 117,
122–123, 144, 147, 153, 155, 183,
224, 284, 301, 302, 326
episodic, 129
texts as, 280
See also Concepts, recalled;
Prosopagnosia
Mental retardation, 222
Merina people, 213
Metamorphoses, 67–68, 222
Metaphors, 7–8, 218, 286
Metcalf, Peter, 208–209
Michotte, Albert, 99, 109
Middle East, 274, 275
Middle classes, 296
Middlemarch(Eliot), 54
Millikan, Ruth, 113
Minds, 2, 27, 32, 42, 45, 91, 112, 114,
115, 116, 129, 144, 198, 220, 228,
235, 258, 329, 331
as accepting beliefs, 30–31, 302–303
activity outside conscious access, 18,
49–50, 94, 98, 105, 109, 151, 154,
159, 175, 183, 239, 249, 250, 263, [369]
289, 290, 304, 305, 306, 307
biases of, 111, 113, 116, 145
as blank slates, 3
and Cartesian theater, 18
vs. computers, 39– 40
control of body by, 15
and corpses, 212. See also Corpses, as
counterintuitive
counterintuitive mentation, 69–71, 72,
78, 86–87. See also Concepts,
counterintuitive
and cultural similarities, 36
developing, 113. See also Children,
development of
effects of concepts in, 31, 50
effects on matter, 76, 77–78
and explanations, 15– 19
of ghosts/gods/spirits, 74, 75, 90, 155
mental phenomena, 11, 15
mental recipes, 47, 54. See also
Concepts, and templates
modern, 326. See also Modernity
and selectivity of supernatural claims,
31
specialized systems in, 101–106, 107,
113, 117, 118, 123, 125, 128, 131,
144 – 145, 161, 177–178, 183, 212,
216, 217, 219, 220–221, 225, 240,
263, 289, 296, 298, 303, 307, 312,INDEX