Communication is a vital component of nature that enables both humans and animals to interact and coexist. This book is a compendium of all aspects of communication, and what makes it effective in both its verbal and non verbal forms. Finnegan explained deeply how humans make use of the five senses of sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing to aid communication in its basic form. The roles played by diverse cultures and civilizations, as well as improvements with the help of advanced technological inputs.
However, how many people have paused to wonder how flocking birds, swarming bees, or schooling fishes are able to coordinate their movements in sophistication and one accord, even without a coordinator? The author of this intriguing book also talked about that and how they relate to human social communication.
Readers of this book will not only be enlightened about all the evolutionary trends in human communication, but would also become acquainted on the direction future modes of communication will likely take.
The book also contains index, images and graphic representations, to ensure that readers understand all details perfectly.
BIO: Ruth Finnegan OBE, an anthropologist, cultural historian and multi-award writer ( fiction, nonfiction, screenplays), is EmerItus Professor of the Open University; Fellow and Medallist ( Rivers Memorial Medal) of the Royal Anthropological Institute of Great Britain and Ireland; Fellow of the British Academy and of the American Folklore Society; and Honorary Fellow of Somerville College Oxford.
She studied classics and anthropology at the University of Oxford followed by field work and university teaching in Africa, then in England, US (Austin) and Fiji and, now with an international reputation, has friends in many continents.
Her many academic publications focus mainly on literary issues, music and communication (including extra sensory). In recent years she has also authored prize-winning novels and screenplays ( three of them now movies), both genres much influenced by her earlier classical studies (above all Homer), and by the rhythms of Irish and African story-telling.
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Born and brought up in Derry and Donegal and the product of a Quaker school, Ruth loves music and singing, nature, and the sound of the sea. Following her mother she has a wild imagination and finds that her novels, poetry and screenplays arise not from deliberate planning but from inspiration born in some inexplicable, unexpected, way in the liminal magic of dreams.
