Author: Jack Goody
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521292429
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Professor Goody's research in West Africa resulted in finding an alternative way of thinking about 'traditional' societies.
The Domestication of the Savage Mind
Author: Jack Goody
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521292429
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Professor Goody's research in West Africa resulted in finding an alternative way of thinking about 'traditional' societies.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521292429
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Professor Goody's research in West Africa resulted in finding an alternative way of thinking about 'traditional' societies.
Domestication of the Savage Mind
Author: Jack Goody
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179
Book Description
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 179
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The Domestication of the Savage Mind
Author:
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 179
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 179
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The Savage Mind (La Pensée Sauvage) 1
Author: Claude Lévi-Strauss
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnophilosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Ethnophilosophy
Languages : en
Pages : 290
Book Description
The Logic of Writing and the Organization of Society
Author: Jack Goody
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521339629
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Author is particularly concerned with ancient Near East and contemporary West Africa.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521339629
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
Author is particularly concerned with ancient Near East and contemporary West Africa.
What Is Intelligence?
Author: James R. Flynn
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139467042
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The 'Flynn effect' refers to the massive increase in IQ test scores over the course of the twentieth century. Does it mean that each generation is more intelligent than the last? Does it suggest how each of us can enhance our own intelligence? Professor Flynn is finally ready to give his own views. He asks what intelligence really is and gives a surprising and illuminating answer. This expanded paperback edition includes three important new essays. The first contrasts the art of writing cognitive history with the science of measuring intelligence and reports data. The second outlines how we might get a complete theory of intelligence, and the third details Flynn's reservations about Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. A fascinating book that bridges the gulf separating our minds from those of our ancestors a century ago, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of human intelligence.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139467042
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 359
Book Description
The 'Flynn effect' refers to the massive increase in IQ test scores over the course of the twentieth century. Does it mean that each generation is more intelligent than the last? Does it suggest how each of us can enhance our own intelligence? Professor Flynn is finally ready to give his own views. He asks what intelligence really is and gives a surprising and illuminating answer. This expanded paperback edition includes three important new essays. The first contrasts the art of writing cognitive history with the science of measuring intelligence and reports data. The second outlines how we might get a complete theory of intelligence, and the third details Flynn's reservations about Gardner's theory of multiple intelligences. A fascinating book that bridges the gulf separating our minds from those of our ancestors a century ago, and makes an important contribution to our understanding of human intelligence.
The Interface Between the Written and the Oral
Author: Jack Goody
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521337946
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Essays on the complex relationship between oral and literate modes of communication.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521337946
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Essays on the complex relationship between oral and literate modes of communication.
List Cultures
Author: Liam Cole Young
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789462981102
Category : Knowledge, Sociology of
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
We live in an age of lists, from magazine features to online clickbait. This book situates the list in a long tradition, asking key questions about the list as a cultural and communicative form. What, Liam Cole Young asks, can this seemingly innocuous form tell us about historical and contemporary media environments and logistical networks? Connecting German theories of cultural techniques to Anglo-American approaches that address similar issues, List Cultures makes a major contribution to debates about New Materialism and the post-human turn.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789462981102
Category : Knowledge, Sociology of
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
We live in an age of lists, from magazine features to online clickbait. This book situates the list in a long tradition, asking key questions about the list as a cultural and communicative form. What, Liam Cole Young asks, can this seemingly innocuous form tell us about historical and contemporary media environments and logistical networks? Connecting German theories of cultural techniques to Anglo-American approaches that address similar issues, List Cultures makes a major contribution to debates about New Materialism and the post-human turn.
The Mind of Primitive Man
Author: Franz Boas
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368613871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1938.
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3368613871
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 302
Book Description
Reprint of the original, first published in 1938.
The World Until Yesterday
Author: Jared Diamond
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101606002
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 727
Book Description
The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? “As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 1101606002
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 727
Book Description
The bestselling author of Collapse and Guns, Germs and Steel surveys the history of human societies to answer the question: What can we learn from traditional societies that can make the world a better place for all of us? “As he did in his Pulitzer Prize-winning Guns, Germs, and Steel, Jared Diamond continues to make us think with his mesmerizing and absorbing new book." Bookpage Most of us take for granted the features of our modern society, from air travel and telecommunications to literacy and obesity. Yet for nearly all of its six million years of existence, human society had none of these things. While the gulf that divides us from our primitive ancestors may seem unbridgeably wide, we can glimpse much of our former lifestyle in those largely traditional societies still or recently in existence. Societies like those of the New Guinea Highlanders remind us that it was only yesterday—in evolutionary time—when everything changed and that we moderns still possess bodies and social practices often better adapted to traditional than to modern conditions.The World Until Yesterday provides a mesmerizing firsthand picture of the human past as it had been for millions of years—a past that has mostly vanished—and considers what the differences between that past and our present mean for our lives today. This is Jared Diamond’s most personal book to date, as he draws extensively from his decades of field work in the Pacific islands, as well as evidence from Inuit, Amazonian Indians, Kalahari San people, and others. Diamond doesn’t romanticize traditional societies—after all, we are shocked by some of their practices—but he finds that their solutions to universal human problems such as child rearing, elder care, dispute resolution, risk, and physical fitness have much to teach us. Provocative, enlightening, and entertaining, The World Until Yesterday is an essential and fascinating read.