Human beings are communal animals with innate desires to be with and interact with others of our species. We establish and maintain familial, tribal, and community bonds. We express our thoughts, our feelings, and our aspirations. We share our observations and interpretations of the world about us. We communicate in many ways – speech, gestures, art, music, performance, text, and photography. If we are unable to use one form of communication to effectively connect, we find another, because communication with others is fundamental to who and what we are as humans.The development of communication capabilities became a natural element that promoted collective life and created capacities that made humans one of the most social species. Our abilities to cooperate, preserve, and pass on knowledge, ideas, and concerns far surpass those of other species and have given us distinct advantages in self-domestication and development (Bowles & Gintis, 20136. Bowles, S., & Gintis, H. (2013). A cooperative species: Human reciprocity and its evolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.For millennia, we gathered around fires and told the stories of our ancestors and others about us. We chanted, sang, and danced together. We fished, hunted, and farmed, passing on our knowledge of those skills to others. We sewed hides and cloth and gossiped about others. We ate together and talked of developments in our lives and how we should respond to them. Facile and informal communication with family, friends, and others in the community was the norm.
Even today, oral communication of culture and knowledge continues to be practiced in tribal settings, private life, and organisations (Ong, 200231. Ong, W. J. (2002). Orality and literacy.
Human beings are communal animals with innate desires to be with and interact with others of our species. We establish and maintain familial, tribal, and community bonds. We express our thoughts, our feelings, and our aspirations. We share our observations and interpretations of the world about us. We communicate in many ways – speech, gestures, art, music, performance, text, and photography. If we are unable to use one form of communication to effectively connect, we find another, because communication with others is fundamental to who and what we are as humans. The development of communication capabilities became a natural element that promoted collective life and created capacities that made humans one of the most social species. Our abilities to cooperate, preserve, and pass on knowledge, ideas, and concerns far surpass those of other species and have given us distinct advantages in self-domestication and development (Bowles & Gintis, 20136. Bowles, S., & Gintis, H. (2013). A cooperative species: Human reciprocity and its evolution. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.For millennia, we gathered around fires and told the stories of our ancestors and others about us. We chanted, sang, and danced together. We fished, hunted, and farmed, passing on our knowledge of those skills to others. We sewed hides and cloth and gossiped about others. We ate together and talked of developments in our lives and how we should respond to them. Facile and informal communication with family, friends, and others in the community was the norm.Even today, oral communication of culture and knowledge continues to be practiced in tribal settings, private life, and organisations (Ong, 200231. Ong, W. J. (2002). Orality and literacy.
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