Gesture and Speech

Name: Gesture and Speech
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ISBN: 9780262121736

ISBN-10: 0262121735

ISBN-13: 9780262121736

Edition: 1993

Authors: Andrï¿½ Leroi-Gourhan, Anna B. Berger, Randall White

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AndrAtilde;copy; Leroi-Gourhan (1911-1986) was an anthropologist and paleontologist whose theoretical endeavors extended well beyond those realms to encompass the culture of the twentieth century and its most advanced developments. His bold and coherent revision of both analytic and archaeological methods revolutionized the study of prehistoric culture. His adoption of the structuralist method for the analysis of prehistoric art enabled a radical rethinking and clearer understanding of its nature, with resulting implications for the understanding of the art of our own times, and for a broad range of contemporary issues. Leroi-Gourhan was, for example, concerned with questions of…

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List price: $69.00
Copyright year: 1993
Publisher: MIT Press
Publication date: 6/4/1993
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 454
Size: 7.50" wide x 9.50" long x 1.25" tall
Weight: 2.244
Language: English



Introduction




Technics and Language



The Image of Ourselves



Brain and Hand



Archanthropians and Palaeoanthropians



The Neanthropians



The Social Organism



Language Symbols



Memory and Rhythms



The Freeing of Memory



Gesture and Program



The Expanding Memory



Ethnic Symbols



Introduction to a Paleontology of Symbols



The Body as the Source of values and Rhythms



Functional Aesthetics



The Symbols of Society



The Language of Forms



Imaginary Freedom and the Fate of Homo sapiens


Notes


Bibliography


Index