Alan Barnard

Genesis of Symbolic Thought

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Produktbeschreibung

The distinguished social anthropologist Alan Barnard explores the origins of the symbolic thought that is fundamental to human existence.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 210
• Erscheinungstermin: 21. Juni 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 462g
• ISBN-13: 9781107025691
• ISBN-10: 1107025699
• Artikelnr.: 36124588

Autorenporträt

Alan Barnard is Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa at the University of Edinburgh, where he has taught since 1978. He has undertaken a wide range of ethnographic fieldwork and archaeological research in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa, is a participant in the British Academy Centenary Research project 'From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain' and serves as Honorary Consul of the Republic of Namibia in Scotland. His numerous publications include History and Theory in Anthropology (2000) and Social Anthropology and Human Origins (2011). In 2010 Professor Barnard was elected a Fellow of the British Academy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Stones, bones, ochre and beads
3. Kinship, sociality and the symbolic order
4. Ritual and religion
5. The flowering of language
6. Conquering the globe
7. After symbolic thought: the Neolithic
8. Conclusion.