Language in Prehistory (Approaches to the Evolution of Language) - Softcover

Barnard, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107692598 ISBN 13: 9781107692596

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Inhaltsangabe

Taking an anthropological perspective, Alan Barnard explores the evolution of language by investigating the lives and languages of modern hunter-gatherers.

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Alan Barnard is Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa at the University of Edinburgh, where he has taught since 1978. He has undertaken ethnographic research with hunter-gatherers in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. He participated in the British Academy Centenary Research Project 'From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain'. In 2010, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, and he serves as an Honorary Consul of the Republic of Namibia. His numerous publications include Social Anthropology and Human Origins (2011) and Genesis of Symbolic Thought (2012), and this volume completes his series on human origins.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2016
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 1107692598
• ISBN 13: 9781107692596
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 196
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