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Nonverbal Communication - Where Nature Meets Culture (Paperback)
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Nonverbal Communication - Where Nature Meets Culture (Paperback)
Series: Psychology Library Editions: Comparative Psychology
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The field of nonverbal communication is a strategic site for
demonstrating the inextricable interrelationship between nature and
culture in human behaviour. This book, originally published in
1997, aims to explode the misconception that "biology" is something
that automatically precludes or excludes "culture". Instead, it
points to the necessary grounding of our social and cultural
capabilities in biological givens and elucidates how biological
factors are systematically co-opted for cultural purposes. The book
presents a complex picture of human communicative ability as
simultaneously biologically and socioculturally influenced, with
some capacities apparently more biologically hard-wired than
others: face recognition, imitation, emotional communication, and
the capacity for language. It also suggests that the dividing line
between nonverbal and linguistic communication is becoming much
less clear-cut. The contributing authors are leading researchers in
a variety of fields, writing here for a general audience. The book
is divided into sections dealing with, respectively, human
universals, evolutionary and developmental aspects of nonverbal
behaviour within a sociocultural context, and finally, the
multifaceted relationships between nonverbal communication and
culture.
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