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The book provides an accessible introduction to scholarship on music listening across the disciplines of musicology, ethnomusicology, sociology of music, psychology of music, and music education.
Introduction -- Precocious in print -- Acting like children -- Kinderlieder and the work of play -- Cadences of the childlike -- Toying with Mozart.
Communication is essential for all forms of social interaction, from parental care to mate choice and cooperation. This is evident for human societies but less obvious for bacterial biofilms, ant colonies or flocks of birds.
This book aims to investigate precisely this hypothesis, known here as Zoosemiotics 2.0, working on several fronts and levels: · Anthropology · Languages of the image and visual representations, from art history to cinema · Old and new ...
Concerned with the fundamental architecture of the mind, this text addresses questions about the existence
—anthropologist Robert F. Murphy (1957, p. 1034), ethnographer of the Amazonian Mundurucú Here's a surprising claim: greater competition among voluntary associations, be they charter towns, universities, guilds, churches, monasteries, ...
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This report analyses all aspects of cultural diversity, which has emerged as a key concern of the international community in recent decades, and maps out new approaches to monitoring and shaping the changes that are taking place.
The contributors to this book focus on the relationship between nature and society from a variety of theoretical and ethnographic perspectives.
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