Binding: Paperback
Description: Treatments of human communication mostly draw on cognitive and word - centred models to present it as predominantly a matter of words. This Finnegan argues seriously underestimates the far - reaching multi - modal qualities of human interconnecting and the senses of touch olfaction and above all audition and vision that we draw on. In an authoritative and readable account Ruth Finnegan brings together research from linguistic and sensory anthropology material culture non - verbal communication computer - mediated communication and strikingly research on animal communication such as the remarkable gesture systems of great apes. She draws on her background in classical studies and her long anthropological experience to present illuminating examples from throughout the world past and present. The result is to uncover an amazing array of sounds sights smells gestures looks movements touches and material objects used by humans and other animals to interconnect both nearby and across space and time She goes on to first explore the extra - sensory modes of communication now being revealed in the extraordinary "new science" research and then in an incendiary conclusion to deny the long - prevailing story of human history by questioning whether orality really came before literacy; whether it was really through "the acquisition of language" that our prehistoric cave painting ancestors made a sudden leap into being "true humans"; and finally astonishingly to ask whether human communicating had its first roots not after all in verbal language but something else. Not to be missed this highly original book brings a fresh perspective on among other things that central topic of interest today the dawn of human history and on what being homo sapiens really means. This revised and updated edition has additional illustrations updated chapters and a new concluding chapter. A provocative and controversial account that will stir worldwide debate this book is an essential transdisciplinary overview for researchers and advanced students in language and communication anthropology and cultural studies.
Title: Communicating The Multiple Modes Of Human Communication
Author(s): Finnegan Ruth (The Open University Uk)
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
Barcode: 9781032484143
Pages: 320 Pages, 6 Tables, Black And White; 60 Halftones, Black And White; 60 Illustrations, Black And Whi
Publication Date: 10/30/2023
Category: Social & Cultural Anthropology, Ethnography