Overview

The book is a themed, mutually referenced collection of articles from a very high-powered set of authors based on the workshop on “Current developments in non-human primate gesture research”, which was held in July 2010 at the European University Viadrina, Frankfurt (Oder), Germany. The motivation for this book – following on from the motivation for the workshop series – was to present the state of the art in non-human primate gesture research with a special emphasis on its history, interdisciplinary perspectives, developments and future directions. This book provides, for the first time in a single volume, the most recent work on comparative gestural signaling by many of the major scholars in the field, such as W.D. Hopkins, D. Leavens, T. Racine, J. van Hooff, and S. Wilcox (in alphabetical order).

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Author:   Simone Pika (Max Planck Institute for Ornithology) ,  Katja Liebal (Freie Universität Berlin, University of Portsmouth & Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology)
Publisher:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Imprint:   John Benjamins Publishing Co
Volume:   6
Weight:   0.630kg
ISBN:  

9789027228482

ISBN 10:   9027228485
Pages:   256
Publication Date:   12 June 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In stock  
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Table of Contents

1. Acknowledgements; 2. About the contributors; 3. Introduction: Developments in primate gesture research (by Pika, Simone); 4. Article; 5. Facial-vocal displays, gestures and language (by Hooff, Jan A.R.A.M. van); 6. Research Studies; 7. Does ontogenetic ritualization explain early communicative gestures in human infants? (by Marentette, Paula); 8. Non-human primates; 9. A mother gorilla's variable use of touch to guide her infant: Insights into iconicity and the relationship between gesture and action (by Perlman, Marcus); 10. Spontaneous use of gesture sequences in orangutans: A case for strategy? (by Tempelmann, Sebastian); 11. Handedness for manual gestures in great apes: A meta-analysis (by Hopkins, William D.); 12. Mandrill visual gestures: A round-the-world study of the largest of all monkeys (by Laidre, Mark E.); 13. Gesture use in consortship: Wild chimpanzees' use of gesture for an 'evolutionarily urgent' purpose (by Hobaiter, Catherine); 14. New trends and debates; 15. A call for conformity: Gesture studies in human and non-human primates (by Scott, Nicole M.); 16. Cognitivism, adaptationism and pointing (by Racine, Timothy P.); 17. Pointing: Contexts and instrumentality (by Leavens, David A.); 18. Requesting behaviours within episodes of active sharing: A new look on chimpanzee signalling (by Wilkinson, Ray); 19. Article; 20. Hands and faces: Linking human language and non-human primate communication (by Wilcox, Sherman); 21. Where next? (by Liebal, Katja); 22. Index

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