Leroi-Gourhan, Andre,, 1911-1986.
Gesture and speech/ Andre, Leroi-Gourhan ,1911-1986. ; translated from the French by Anna Bostock Berger ; and introduced by Randall White - xxii, 431 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
"An October book." Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 viewpoint.
Contents
Introduction / Randall White
I Technics and Language
1 The Image of Ourselves 3
2 Brain and Hand 25
3 Archanthropians and Palaeoanthropians 61
4 The Neanthropians 117
5 The Social Organism 145
6 Language Symbols 187
II Memory and Rhythms
7 The Freeing of Memory 219
8 Gesture and Program 237
9 The Expanding Memory 257
III Ethnic Symbols
10 Introduction to a Paleontology of Symbols 269
11 The Body as the Source of values and Rhythms 281
12 Functional Aesthetics 299
13 The Symbols of Society 313
14 The Language of Forms 363
15 Imaginary Freedom and the Fate of Homo sapiens 401
Notes 409
Bibliography 415
Index 421
0262121735 9780262121736
Communication
Signs and symbols
Human evolution
Intellect
Gesture
302.2 / LE.G
Gesture and speech/ Andre, Leroi-Gourhan ,1911-1986. ; translated from the French by Anna Bostock Berger ; and introduced by Randall White - xxii, 431 p. :ill. ;24 cm.
"An October book." Includes bibliographical references and index.
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 viewpoint.
Contents
Introduction / Randall White
I Technics and Language
1 The Image of Ourselves 3
2 Brain and Hand 25
3 Archanthropians and Palaeoanthropians 61
4 The Neanthropians 117
5 The Social Organism 145
6 Language Symbols 187
II Memory and Rhythms
7 The Freeing of Memory 219
8 Gesture and Program 237
9 The Expanding Memory 257
III Ethnic Symbols
10 Introduction to a Paleontology of Symbols 269
11 The Body as the Source of values and Rhythms 281
12 Functional Aesthetics 299
13 The Symbols of Society 313
14 The Language of Forms 363
15 Imaginary Freedom and the Fate of Homo sapiens 401
Notes 409
Bibliography 415
Index 421
0262121735 9780262121736
Communication
Signs and symbols
Human evolution
Intellect
Gesture
302.2 / LE.G