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Human Evolution, Language and Mind

A Psychological and Archaeological Inquiry

By: William Noble,Iain Davidson

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Human Evolution, Language and Mind

A Psychological and Archaeological Inquiry

By: William Noble,Iain Davidson

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CUP Archive

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0521576350

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9780521576352

Gesture and the Nature of Language

By: David F. Armstrong,William C. Stokoe,Sherman E. Wilcox

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Gesture and the Nature of Language

By: David F. Armstrong,William C. Stokoe,Sherman E. Wilcox

This book proposes a radical alternative to dominant views of the evolution of language, in particular the origins of syntax. The authors draw on evidence from areas such as primatology, anthropology, and linguistics to present a groundbreaking account of the notion that language emerged through visible bodily action. Written in a clear and accessible style, Gesture and the Nature of Language will be indispensable reading for all those interested in the origins of language.

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Cambridge University Press

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0521467721

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9780521467728

The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia

An Introduction

By: Victor King,William D. Wilder

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The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia

An Introduction

By: Victor King,William D. Wilder

This is a comprehensive introduction to the social and cultural anthropology of South-East Asia. It provides an overview of the major theoretical issues and themes which have emerged from the engagement of anthropologists with South-East Asian communities; a succinct historical survey and analysis of the peoples and cultures of the region. Most importantly the volume reveals the vitally important role which the study of the area has occupied in the development of the concepts and methods of anthropology: from the perspectives of Edmund Leach to Clifford Geertz, Maurice Freedman to Claude Levi-Strauss; Lauriston Sharp to Melford Spiro.

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Routledge

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1000143120

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9781000143126

Of "good Laws" and "good Men"

Law and Society in the Delaware Valley, 1680-1710

By: William McEnery Offutt

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Of "good Laws" and "good Men"

Law and Society in the Delaware Valley, 1680-1710

By: William McEnery Offutt

Of "Good Laws" and "Good Men" reveals how a Quaker minority in the Delaware Valley used the law to its own advantage yet maintained the legitimacy of its rule. William Offutt, Jr., places legal processes at the center of this region's social history. The new societies established there in the late 1600s did not rely on religious conformity, culture, or a simple majority to develop successfully, Offutt maintains. Rather, they succeeded because of the implementation of reforms that gave the expanding population faith in the legitimacy of legal processes introduced by a Quaker elite. Offutt's painstaking investigation of the records of more than 2,000 civil and 1,100 criminal cases in four county courts over a thirty-year period shows that Quakers - the "Good Men" - were disproportionately represented as justices, officers, and jurors in this system of "Good Laws" they had established, and that they fared better than did the rest of the population in dealing with it.

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University of Illinois Press

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0252021525

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Human Evolution, Language and Mind

Human Evolution, Language and Mind

Gesture and the Nature of Language

Gesture and the Nature of Language

The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia

The Modern Anthropology of South-East Asia

Of "good Laws" and "good Men"

Of "good Laws" and "good Men"

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