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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