TY  - BOOK
AU  - Barnard,Alan
TI  - Genesis of symbolic thought
SN  - 9781139518994
AV  - GN452.5 .B37 2012eb
U1  - 306.4 23
PY  - 2012///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Symbolic anthropology
KW  - Language and languages
KW  - Origin
KW  - Human evolution
KW  - Thought and thinking
KW  - Symbolisme en anthropologie
KW  - Langage et langues
KW  - Origines
KW  - Homme
KW  - Évolution
KW  - Pensée
KW  - thinking
KW  - aat
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE
KW  - Public Policy
KW  - Cultural Policy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Cultural
KW  - Popular Culture
KW  - fast
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - 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
N2  - 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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