Review on the Book Mutant Message Down Under

Review on the Book Mutant Message Down Under
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Review on the Book Mutant Message Down Under
The literature work of Keep the River on your Right belongs to an anthropologist by the name Tobias Schneebaum. The work is quite interesting as it takes an outlook of a memoir explaining the experiences of the writer in life with primitive tribe presumed to be cannibalistic. The work expresses more of jungle experiences that the author had with primitive Indian communities in the jungle. On the other hand, there is a comparable book to the film Keep the River on your Right. From an analytic standpoint, the book Mutant Message Down Under is quite important in expressing experiences in the journal. The book records the experiences of an American woman, who walks in a desert alongside a group of about 60 courageous aborigines in Australia. The author further claims that he wrote the book based on true story experiences. The essay reviews the book Mutant Message Down Underand compares the book to the film Keep the River on your Right as the book, and the film is comparable with an attempt to express Non-verbal communication.
Non-verbal communication is quite important as it helps one to understand cultural interactions well. The chief reason behind the argument is that some of the cultural practices that people carry out do not involve verbal communication (Kuppers, 2013). The practices might just be acts that one needs to observe and understand as the person can see what the respective community does as well as the key points and aspects the community focuses. In the book, several parts of the book use non-verbal communication. A good example in the book is through the interactions that the author had with the aboriginal communities in the Australian context. In most of the occasion where one wants to learn about new cultures, the person just observes in silence and learns most of the aspects he or she wanted to learn from the cultures of the respective community. Based on the above perspective, non-verbal communication is important in the field of communication.
One can express verbal communication through some ways. One of the prime ways through which one can express non-verbal communication is through gestures (Kuppers, 2013). Gestures are signs and symbols of communication majorly expressed through hands of the sender and received through the eyes of the receiver. In reply/feedback, the receiver changes to be the sender of the messages where he or she uses the communicat...