Language in Prehistory (Approaches to the Evolution of Language) - Softcover

Barnard, Alan

 
9781107692596: Language in Prehistory (Approaches to the Evolution of Language)
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ISBN 10: 1107692598 ISBN 13: 9781107692596
Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2016

Synopsis

Taking an anthropological perspective, Alan Barnard explores the evolution of language by investigating the lives and languages of modern hunter-gatherers.

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About the Author

Alan Barnard is Professor of the Anthropology of Southern Africa at the University of Edinburgh, where he has taught since 1978. He has undertaken ethnographic research with hunter-gatherers in Botswana, Namibia and South Africa. He participated in the British Academy Centenary Research Project 'From Lucy to Language: The Archaeology of the Social Brain'. In 2010, he was elected a Fellow of the British Academy, and he serves as an Honorary Consul of the Republic of Namibia. His numerous publications include Social Anthropology and Human Origins (2011) and Genesis of Symbolic Thought (2012), and this volume completes his series on human origins.

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Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Publication date
2016
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1107692598
ISBN 13 
9781107692596
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
196

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