Roots of Human Sociality

* Introduction: Human Sociality as a New Interdisciplinary Field N.J. Enfield and Stepehn C. Levinson * Part 1: Properties of Human Interaction * On the Human 'Interaction Engine' Stephen C. Levinson * Interaction: The Infrastructure for Social Institutions, the Natural Ecological Niche for Language, and the Arena in which Culture is Enacted Emanuel A. Schegloff * Human Sociality as Mutual Orientation in a Rich Interactive Environment: Multimodal Utterances and Pointing in Aphasia Charles Goodwin * Social Actions, Social Commitments Herbert H. Clark * Part 2: Psychological Foundations * Infant Pointing at 12 Months: Communicative Goals, Motives, and Social-Cognitive Abilities Ulf Liszkowski * The Development Interdependence of Theory of Mind and Language Janet Wilde Astington * Constructing the Social Mind: Language and False-Belief Understanding Jennie E. Pyers * Sylvia's Recipe: The Role of Imitation and Pedagogy in the Transmission of Cultural Knowledge Gyorgy Gergely and Gergely Csibra * Part 3: Culture and Sociality * The Thought that Counts: The Interactional Consequences of Variation in Cultural Theories of Meaning Eve Danziger * Cultural Perspectives on Infant-Caregiver Interaction Suzanne Gaskins * Joint Commitment and Common Ground in a Ritual Event William F. Hanks * Habits and Innovations: Designing Language for New, Technologically Mediated Sociality Elizabeth Keating * Part 4: Cognition in Interaction * Meeting Other Minds through Gesture: How Children Use their Hands to Reinvent Language and Distribute Cognition Susan Goldin-Meadow * The Distributed Cognition Perspective on Human Interaction Edwin Hutchins * Social Consequences of Common Ground N.J. Enfield * Why a Deep Understanding of Cultural Evolution is Incompatible with Shallow Psychology Dan Sperber * Part 5: Evolutionary Perspectives * Culture and the Evolution of the Human Social Instincts R. Boyd and P. J. Richerson * Parsing Behavior: A Mundane Origin for an

Nicholas J. Enfield and Stephen C. Levinson are at the Max Planck Institute for Psycholinguistics, Nijmegen, the Netherlands.

The publication of this book is a sign of an important new development, which will recast anthropology. We have here a number of disciplines which, having previously shunned each other, are now genuinely working together in order to understand the specificity and the nature of human social life. Maurice Bloch, London School of Economics This is a landmark volume, that refracts anthropological knowledge at entirely new angles that can change in fundamental ways how we think about what we do and what we know. Jane Hill, The University of Arizona Social science at its best: comprehensive, compelling, and incisive. Together the chapters of 'Roots of Human Sociality' provide a superbly-crafted and exceptionally wide-ranging account of how thought and culture create, and in turn are sustained through human social interaction. Lawrence A. Hirschfeld, New School for Social Research Readers of 'Roots of Human Sociality' are treated to a wide-ranging feat of ideas and empirical findings, and the quality of the individual chapters is very high ... the volume is an exciting - and, at over 500 pages, abundant - peek at an emerging area of research. Few volumes of paper become "classic", but I suspect that this one will. Gesture