Genesis of symbolic thought / Alan Barnard.
Material type: TextPublication details: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2012.Description: 1 online resourceContent type:- text
- computer
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- 9781139518994
- 1139518992
- 1280775203
- 9781280775208
- 9781139517133
- 1139517139
- Symbolic anthropology
- Language and languages -- Origin
- Human evolution
- Thought and thinking
- Symbolisme en anthropologie
- Langage et langues -- Origines
- Homme -- Évolution
- Pensée
- thinking
- POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural
- SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture
- Human evolution
- Language and languages -- Origin
- Symbolic anthropology
- Thought and thinking
- 306.4 23
- GN452.5 .B37 2012eb
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Stones, bones, ochre and beads -- Kinship, sociality and the symbolic order -- Ritual and religion -- The flowering of language -- Conquering the globe -- After symbolic thought: the Neolithic.
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Symbolic thought is what makes us human. Claude Lévi-Strauss stated that we can never know the genesis of symbolic thought, but in this powerful new study Alan Barnard argues that we can. Continuing the line of analysis initiated in Social Anthropology and Human Origins (Cambridge University Press, 2011), Genesis of Symbolic Thought applies ideas from social anthropology, old and new, to understand some of the areas also being explored in fields as diverse as archaeology, linguistics, genetics and neuroscience. Barnard aims to answer questions including: when and why did language come into being? What was the earliest religion? And what form did social organization take before humanity dispersed from the African continent? Rejecting the notion of hunter-gatherers as 'primitive', Barnard hails the great sophistication of the complex means of their linguistic and symbolic expression and places the possible origin of symbolic thought at as early as 130,000 years ago.
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