ARCHIVE - Evolving Communication - Week VI http://www2.evergreen.edu/evolvingcommunication/taxonomy/term/11/0 What is Abram's thesis in chapter 4, "Animism and the Alphabet" of Spell of the Sensuous? If you cannot find a precise statement in the text, then summarize the thesis from your understanding of the chapter as a whole. Support or reject this thesis by drawing on what you have learned so far in linguistics about language structure and in biology about cultural evolution. Focus on 2-3 major points that Abrams makes in your analysis of this chapter. en