Author: Ryne Arthur PalombitPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courtship in animals
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Pair Bonds and Monogamy in Wild Siamang (Hylobates Syndactylus) and White-handed Gibbon (Hylobates Lar) in Northern Sumatra
Author: Ryne Arthur PalombitPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Courtship in animals
Languages : en
Pages : 958
Book Description
Recent Dissertations on Indonesia
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 634
Book Description
Doctoral Dissertations on Asia
Author: Dissertation Abstracts International
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Dissertations, Academic
Languages : en
Pages : 788
Book Description
American Doctoral Dissertations
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Category : Dissertation abstracts
Languages : en
Pages : 796
Book Description
The Origins of Music
Author: Nils L. WallinPublisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 9780262731430
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 516
Book Description
The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology. What biological and cognitive forces have shaped humankind's musical behavior and the rich global repertoire of musical structures? What is music for, and why does every human culture have it? What are the universal features of music and musical behavior across cultures? In this groundbreaking book, musicologists, biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, psychologists, neuroscientists, ethologists, and linguists come together for the first time to examine these and related issues. The book can be viewed as representing the birth of evolutionary biomusicology—the study of which will contribute greatly to our understanding of the evolutionary precursors of human music, the evolution of the hominid vocal tract, localization of brain function, the structure of acoustic-communication signals, symbolic gesture, emotional manipulation through sound, self-expression, creativity, the human affinity for the spiritual, and the human attachment to music itself. Contributors Simha Arom, Derek Bickerton, Steven Brown, Ellen Dissanayake, Dean Falk, David W. Frayer, Walter Freeman, Thomas Geissmann, Marc D. Hauser, Michel Imberty, Harry Jerison, Drago Kunej, François-Bernard Mâche, Peter Marler, Björn Merker, Geoffrey Miller, Jean Molino, Bruno Nettl, Chris Nicolay, Katharine Payne, Bruce Richman, Peter J.B. Slater, Peter Todd, Sandra Trehub, Ivan Turk, Maria Ujhelyi, Nils L. Wallin, Carol Whaling
The First Sex
Author: Helen E. FisherPublisher: Ballantine
ISBN: 9780449912607
Category : Ability
Languages : en
Pages : 0
Book Description
Declaring that women are now "the first sex, " a noted anthropologist argues that women's cooperative spirit, patience, superior verbal ability, and gift for "web thinking" make them perfectly suited to help solve the increasingly complex problems our society faces.
Shinto
Author: Helen HardacrePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190621710
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 721
Book Description
Helen Hardacre offers for the first time in any language a sweeping, comprehensive history of Shinto, the tradition that is practiced by some 80% of the Japanese people and underlies the institution of the Emperor.
Music, Myth, and Nature, Or, The Dolphins of Arion
Author: François Bernard MâchePublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 9783718653218
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
François Bernard-Mâche here uses music-related myths and ancient as well as more recent history to show the underlying relationship between musical thought and certain natural laws. Using original analytical techniques, he sheds new light on the history of music, showing the presence of music in the animal world to demonstrate that Nature and culture are not in opposition.
African Polyphony and Polyrhythm
Author: Simha AromPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 052124160X
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 700
Book Description
An original approach to the understanding of the complete and sophisticated patterns of polyphony and polyrhythm of African music.