Genesis of Symbolic Thought Paperback - Softcover

Barnard, Alan

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1107651093 ISBN 13: 9781107651098

Verlag: Cambridge University Press, 2012

Inhaltsangabe

Symbolic thought is fundamental to human existence. If social anthropology cannot explain it, what can? Alan Barnard applies ideas from social anthropology to questions being explored in archaeology, linguistics, genetics and neuroscience, considering the explosion of art, religion and language that lies at the heart of what makes us human.

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'Barnard attempts to answer the question of when and how human symbolic thought originated ... The book is written in a way that should make it easily understood by nonspecialists, but it should be of value and interest to specialists as well ... Recommended. All levels/libraries.' C. L. Thompson, Choice

Biografía del autor:

Alan Barnard is Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa at the University of Edinburgh, where he has taught since 1978. He has undertaken a wide range of ethnographic fieldwork and archaeological research in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, is a participant in the British Academy Centenary Research project 'From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain' and serves as Honorary Consul of the Republic of Namibia in Scotland. His numerous publications include History and Theory in Anthropology (2000) and Social Anthropology and Human Origins (2011). In 2010 Professor Barnard was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

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• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• ISBN 10: 1107651093
• ISBN 13: 9781107651098
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 210