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

Mithen, Prof Steven

Brossura

ISBN 10: 075382051X ISBN 13: 9780753820513

Casa editrice: W&N, 2006

Riassunto

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.

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Recensione:

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))

Descrizione del libro:

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

Su questa edizione

• Editore: W&N
• Data di pubblicazione: 2006
• ISBN 10: 075382051X
• ISBN 13: 9780753820513
• Rilegatura: Paperback
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 384