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050 00 $aQL737.P96$bK56 2004
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100 1 $aKing, Barbara J.,$d1956-$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n94009580
245 14 $aThe dynamic dance :$bnonvocal communication in African great apes /$cBarbara J. King.
260 $aCambridge, Mass. :$bHarvard University Press,$c2004.
300 $a283 pages, 6 unnumbered pages of plates :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
336 $atext$btxt$2rdacontent
337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [255]-270) and index.
505 00 $g1.$tSocial communication as dance -- $g2.$tGesture and dynamic systems theory -- $g3.$tGesture in captive African great apes -- $g4.$tGesture in wild African great apes -- $g5.$tThe evolution of gesture -- $g6.$tImagined futures.
520 1 $a"Mother and infant negotiate over food; two high-status males jockey for power; female kin band together to get their way. It happens among humans and it happens among our closest living relatives in the animal kingdom, the great apes of Africa." "Using dynamic systems theory, an approach employed to study human communication, Barbara King is able to demonstrate the genuine complexity of apes' social communication, and the extent to which their interactions generate meaning. As King describes, apes create meaning primarily through their body movements - and go well beyond conveying messages about food, mating, or predators. Readers come to know the captive apes she has observed, and others across Africa as well, and to understand "the process of creating social meaning."" "This new perspective not only acquaints us with our closest living relatives, but informs us about a possible pathway for the evolution of language in our own species. King's theory challenges the popular idea that human language is instinctive, with rules and abilities hardwired into our brains. Rather, The Dynamic Dance suggests, language has its roots in the gestural "building up of meaning" that was present in the ancestor we shared with the great apes, and that we continue to practice to this day."--BOOK JACKET.
650 0 $aApes$xBehavior$zAfrica.$0http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2009010539
650 0 $aAnimal communication$zAfrica.
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