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The Dynamic Dance

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Description for The Dynamic Dance Hardcover. Num Pages: 304 pages, 7 halftones. BIC Classification: PSVP; PSVW79. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 140 x 27. Weight in Grams: 478.

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. In this eye-opening book, we see precisely how such events unfold in chimpanzees, bonobos, and gorillas: through a spontaneous, mutually choreographed dance of actions, gestures, and vocalizations in which social partners create meaning and come to understand each other.

Using dynamic systems theory, an approach employed to study human communication, Barbara King is able to demonstrate the ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
304
Condition
New
Number of Pages
304
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674015159
SKU
V9780674015159
Shipping Time
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99-1

About Barbara J. King
Barbara J. King is Chancellor Professor of Anthropology, Emerita, at the College of William and Mary.

Reviews for The Dynamic Dance
In this engaging account of her personal scientific journey, Barbara King discovers the fundamental insight that the common ancestral ground between humans and great apes is the ability to engage in creative communication in which meaning emerges dynamically as individuals co-regulate. This creative ability is the foundation of all forms of communication, including gesture and language, in apes and humans. ... Read more

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