Communicating: The Multiple Modes of Human InterconnectionIn Communicating, the anthropologist Ruth Finnegan considers the many and varied modes through which we humans communicate and the multisensory resources we draw on. The book uncovers the amazing array of sounds, sights, smells, gestures, looks, movements, touches and material objects which humans use so creatively to interconnect both nearby and across space and time - resources consistently underestimated in those western ideologies that prioritise 'rationality' and referential language. |
Contents
Communicating humans but what does that mean? | 3 |
How can we communicate? The basic resources of humans | 33 |
The sounding world and its creation | 59 |
vision and the communicating body | 92 |
human arts and artefacts | 137 |
Sensing the odour | 176 |
Communicating touch | 194 |
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Through space and time | 244 |
What now? | 255 |
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Communicating: The Multiple Modes of Human Interconnection Ruth H. Finnegan No preview available - 2002 |
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