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020			_a9781139198707 (ebook)
020			_z9781107025691 (hardback)
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050	0	0	_aGN452.5 _b.B37 2012
082	0	0	_a306.4 _223
100	1		_aBarnard, Alan, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aGenesis of Symbolic Thought / [electronic resource] _cAlan Barnard.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2012.
300			_a1 online resource (208 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 09 Oct 2015).
520			_aSymbolic thought is what makes us human. Claude Lévi-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), 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.
650		0	_aSymbolic anthropology
650		0	_aHuman evolution
650		0	_aThought and thinking
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781107025691
856	4	0	_uhttp://dx.doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139198707 _zCambridge Books Online
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