The Singing Neanderthals: The Origins of Music, Language, Mind and Body - Rilegato

Mithen, Prof Steven

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ISBN 10: 0297643177 ISBN 13: 9780297643173

Casa editrice: Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2005

Riassunto

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, those of that other aural and vocal communication system, music, have been neglected if not ignored. Like language it is a universal feature of human culture, one that is a permanent feature of our daily lives and one that is capable of both expressing and inducing intense emotion. In The Singing Neanderthal, 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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Steven Mithen is Professor of Early Prehistory and head of the School of Human and environmental Sciences at Reading University. Author of numerous books and articles, he has also consulted and appeared on TV and radio programmes about prehistory around the world. He has directed fieldwork in Western Scotland and is currently co-directing excavations in Wadi Faynan, southern Jordan.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
• Data di pubblicazione: 2005
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0297643177
• ISBN 13: 9780297643173
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 272
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: non disponibile