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Universals of Human Thought

Some African Evidence

Universals of Human Thought( )
Editor: Lloyd, Barbara
Gay, John
ISBN:978-0-521-29818-6
Publication Date:Mar 1981
Publisher:Cambridge University Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:AUD $49.95
Book Description:

This book, originally published in 1981, attempts to identify substantive universals that underlie the social diversity across cultures, which anthropologists and others documented. The contributors to this volume all focus on the relevant data in Africa. The volume will be of particular interest to cross-cultural psychologists, linguists, Africanists and anthropologists.

Book Details
Pages:300
Detailed Subjects: Psychology / General
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):15.2 x 22.9 x 1.7 cm
Book Weight:0.44 Kilograms
Author Biography
(Editor)
Gay is a highly original poet and dramatist who experimented in various forms and genres. His The What D'Ye Call It: A Tragi-Comical Pastoral Farce (1715) is a burlesque of high seriousness, as is Three Hours after Marriage, which he wrote with his fellow members of the Scriblerus Club Alexander Pope and Dr. John Arbuthnot.

The Beggar's Opera (1728) is his best-known work; it started the vogue for ballad operas, with tunes drawn from popular airs (Gay's are mostly from Thomas D'Urfey's Pills to Purge Melancholy, a popular sourcebook for ribald songs). The Beggar's Opera satirizes gentility and vulgarity alike, and its topical political allusions are so direct that the government forbade its' sequel, Polly. Bertolt Brecht caught the spirit of the work in his Threepenny Opera.

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