The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, And Body - Couverture rigide

Mithen, Steven

 
9780674021921: The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind, And Body
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ISBN 10 : 0674021924 ISBN 13 : 9780674021921
Editeur : Harvard University Press, 2006

Synopsis

Book by Mithen Steven

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Présentation de l'éditeur

A fascinating and incisive examination of our language instinct from award-winning science writer Steven Mithen.

Along with the concepts of consciousness and intelligence, our capacity for language sits right at the core of what makes us human. But while the evolutionary origins of language have provoked speculation and impassioned debate, music has been neglected if not ignored. Like language it is a universal feature of human culture, one that is a permanent fixture in our daily lives.

In THE SINGING NEANDERTHALS, Steven Mithen redresses the balance, drawing on a huge range of sources, from neurological case studies through child psychology and the communication systems of non-human primates to the latest paleoarchaeological evidence.

The result is a fascinating and provocative work and a succinct riposte to those, like Steven Pinker, who have dismissed music as a functionless and unimportant evolutionary byproduct.

Revue de presse

An interesting attempt to probe the long-term history of feeling as well as of thought... [This] book is intelligent, important and clear. Anyone who likes to ask broad questions about intelligence, religion and experience, as well as anyone interested in long-term human history, will be able to read and argue with [this] book with enjoyment and profit. (THES (3/3/06))

There is much illuminating and thought-provoking material. (Ross Leckie THE TIMES)

Wonderfully evocative... a highly original view of our musical origins. (GUARDIAN (1/4/06))

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Éditeur
Harvard University Press
Date d'édition
2006
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0674021924
ISBN 13 
9780674021921
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Nombre de pages
272
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ISBN 10 :  075382051X ISBN 13 :  9780753820513
Editeur : W&N, 2006
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