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
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Communication Signs and symbols Human evolution Intellect Gesture