Hands : what we do with them - and why / Darian Leader.
Publisher: UK : Hamish Hamilton, 2016Description: vii, 120 pages ; 23 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 9780241216477
- 9780241256541
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| 128.6 HIL The second body / | 128.6 JOH The meaning of the body : aesthetics of human understanding / | 128.6 LAI Everybody : a book about freedom / | 128.6 LEA Hands : what we do with them - and why / | 128.6 MAS Parables for the virtual : movement, affect, sensation / | 128.6 NAN Corpus | 128.6 POH Donna Haraway's A cyborg manifesto / |
Includes bibliographical references.
A fresh, thought-provoking and wide-ranging study of how mankind uses its hands. Mankind's story is marked out by profound changes in how we use our hands but also by underlying patterns that never change. And as much as the things we do with our hands reflect our psychological state, they can also change that state profondly. Drawing examples from popular culture, art history, psychoanalysis, modern technology and clinical research, Darian Leader presents a unique and fascinating odyssey through the history of what human beings do with their hands and why.