Gesture and speech

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Combines in one volume "Technics and Language", in which anthropologist Leroi-Gourhan looks at prehistoric technology in relation to the development of cognitive and liguistic faculties, and "Memory and Rhythms", which addresses instinct and intelligence from a sociological viewp...

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Main Author: Leroi-Gourhan, André, 1911-1986
Format: Book
Language:English
French
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, ©1993.
Series:October Books
Subjects:
Communication.
Signs and symbols.
Human evolution.
Intellect.
Gesture.
Intelligence
Gestures
Signes et symboles.
Homme > Évolution.
Intelligence.
Gestes.
symbols.
gesture.
Anthropologie
Evolution
Kunst
Technik
Paläontologie.
Sprache
Tekens.
Evolutie.
Mensachtigen.
Comunicação.
Evolução humana.
Prehistoric peoples.
Oral communication.
Art, Prehistoric.
Writing.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction / Randall White
  • I. Technics and Language
  • 1. The Image of Ourselves
  • 2. Brain and Hand
  • 3. Archanthropians and Palaeoanthropians
  • 4. The Neanthropians
  • 5. The Social Organism
  • 6. Language Symbols
  • II. Memory and Rhythms
  • 7. The Freeing of Memory
  • 8. Gesture and Program
  • 9. The Expanding Memory
  • III. Ethnic Symbols
  • 10. Introduction to a Paleontology of Symbols
  • 11. The Body as the Source of values and Rhythms
  • 12. Functional Aesthetics
  • 13. The Symbols of Society
  • 14. The Language of Forms
  • 15. Imaginary Freedom and the Fate of Homo sapiens.

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