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Genesis of Symbolic Thought (Hardcover, New) Loot Price: R1,572
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Genesis of Symbolic Thought (Hardcover, New): Alan Barnard

Genesis of Symbolic Thought (Hardcover, New)

Alan Barnard

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Symbolic thought is what makes us human. Claude Levi-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), The 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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Imprint: Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: June 2012
First published: June 2012
Authors: Alan Barnard
Dimensions: 234 x 155 x 14mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 208
Edition: New
ISBN-13: 978-1-107-02569-1
Categories: Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > Social & cultural anthropology > General
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LSN: 1-107-02569-9
Barcode: 9781107025691

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