Ruth Finnegan

Communicating (eBook, ePUB)

The Multiple Modes of Human Communication

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Not to be missed, this highly original book brings a fresh perspective on, among other things, that central topic of interest today - the dawn of human history - and on what being homo sapiens really means. This revised and updated edition has additional illustrations, updated chapters, and a new concluding chapter.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 338
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Oktober 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000954630
• Artikelnr.: 68881193

Autorenporträt

Ruth Finnegan OBE FBA FAFS is Emeritus Professor (Open University), Medalist of the Royal Anthropological Society of Great Britain and Ireland, and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College, University of Oxford. Her previous publications, many of them prize-winning, focus mainly on linguistic anthropology, music, and cultural history.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I First Questions
1. Humans communicate - what does that mean? 2. Communicative resources of humans and others
Part II The Senses
3. The sounding word and its creation
4. Communicating touch
5. Sensing the odour
6. Enacting the sights: Vision and the communicating body
7. Creating and sharing sights: Humans arts and artefacts
Part III Beyond
8. Beyond the five senses
9. A mix of arts
10. Through space and time
Part IV Last Questions
11. Then, now, and on
Bibliography
Index