Homo Symbolicus

Name: Homo Symbolicus | The dawn of language, imagination and spirituality
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The dawn of language, imagination and spirituality

Christopher S. Henshilwood Francesco D'Errico(Herausgeber*in)

John Benjamins Publishing Company

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Erschienen am 16. November 2011

XI, 237 Seiten

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Homo Symbolicus
Title page
LCC data
Table of contents
Editors' introduction
Acknowledgements
1 . Pan Symbolicus
1. Introduction
2. Communication does not equal language
3. Language does not equal speech
4. Symbol-use does not equal language
5. Non-human language does not equal human language
6. Pan symbolicus
References
2. The evolution and the rise of human language
1. Introduction
2. Biological humanness
3. Ape language and ape culture
4. Maternal infant carriage and interaction as substrate of human agency
5. Self-agency and the duality of consciousness
6. Conclusion
References
3. The origin of symbolically mediated behaviour
1. Introduction
2. First instances of symbolic material culture and their implications
3. Demography as a triggering factor?
4. Climate as a triggering factor
5. Discussion
Acknowledgements
References
4. Middle Stone Age engravings and their significance to the debate on the emergence of symbolic material culture
1. Introduction
2. Howiesons Poort techno-tradition
2.1 Diepkloof Rock Shelter
2.1.1 Archaeological context and dating
3. Diepkloof engraved ostrich eggshells
4. Still Bay techno-tradition
4.1 Blombos Cave
4.1.1 Archaeological context and dating
5. Blombos engraved ochre
6. Contrasting the significance of early engravings
Acknowledgements
References
5. Complex cognition required for compound adhesive manufacture in the Middle Stone Age implies symbolic capacity
1. Introduction
2. What is complex cognition?
3. What gave rise to complex cognition?
4. The archaeological evidence
5. Replicated compound adhesive manufacture: Methods
6. Compound adhesive manufacture as a proxy for modern cognition
Reference
6. The emergence of language, art and symbolic thinking
1. Introduction
2. Neandertal-ness
3. Paradigm lost
4. Paradigm found
5. Conclusion
References
7. The human major transition in relation to symbolic behaviour, including language, imagination, and spirituality
1. What is a major evolutionary transition?
2. Human evolution as a major transition
3. Cognitive teamwork and simple forms that preceded more advanced forms
4. Language, imagination, and spirituality
5. Testable predictions
References
8. The living as symbols, the dead as symbols
1. Introduction: Living symbols, dead symbols
2. Problematising the archaeological debate: Symbolic revolutions that were or were not
3. Material culture symbols among the living
4. The dead as symbols
5. The evolution of Homo symbolicus: Gradual, abrupt, or fragmentary?
6. Conclusion
Acknowledgements
References
9. Biology and mechanisms related to the dawn of language
1. The Functional and Structural Context
2. The Nature of Language: Crucial Features
2.1 An embodied symbolic system
2.2 Equivalence class of representations and embodiment
2.3 Key features of language
3. Hierarchical Structuring
3.1 Functional structure
3.2 Bottom-up and top-down causation
4. Language Modules and the Development of Language
4.1 Evolutionary development
4.2 Language modules.
5. Patterns and Symbols: Vision and Music
5.1 Pattern Recognition and classification.
5.2 Visual thinking.
5.3 Grammatical forms and music.
6. The Importance of Emotions in this Development
6.1 The motivational impulse for language use.
6.2 The basis in developmental biology and evolution.
7. Key Steps towards Language
7.1 Changes in Physiology
7.2 Changes in the Social and Ecological context
7.3 Emotional development: The nature of play, other minds
References
10. The Other Middle-Range Theories
1. Introduction
2. A research agenda for the next two centuries
3. What middle-range theories for non-archaeologists?
4. Current middle-range theories
5. What's wrong with current theories ?
6. From mental phenomena to mental mechanisms
7. Toward palaeocognitive neurosciences
7.1 Human and nonhuman primate comparative neuroscience
7.2 Developmental neuroscience
7.3 Palaeoneurology
8. Conclusion and caveats
Acknowledgements
References
11. Metarepresentation, Homo religious, and Homo symbolicus
1. Introduction
2. Metarepresentation and religious evolution
3. The Standard View
4. The Adaptation Hypothesis
5. Possible but improbable
6. The Pre-human Religion Hypothesis
7. The Concurrence Hypothesis
8. Anthropomorphism, agency detection, and gods
9. Intuitive dualism and spirits
10. Naïve creationism and intuitive theism
11. Metarepresentation and Homo religiosus
12. Metarepresentation and cumulative culture
13. Metarepresentation and Homo symbolicus
14. On evidence for the evolution of metarepresentation, Homo religious and Homo symbolicus
15. Conclusion
References
Index

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