The hand : how its use shapes the brain, language, and human culture
Entry/Object ID
QP334.W5 1999
Description
This book delineates the ways in which our hands have shaped our development--cognitive, emotional, linguistic, and psychological--in light of the most recent research being done in anthropology, neuroscience, linguistics, and psychology.
Lexicon
Search Terms
hand--physiology
Legacy Lexicon
Category
Book
Book Details
Author
Frank Wilson
Publisher
Vintage Books
Place Published
City
New York
Date Published
1999
ISBN
9780679740476
Notes
Length: 397
General Notes
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Contents
Note
1. Dawn -- 2. The Hand-Thought-Language Nexus -- 3. The Arm We Brought Down from the Trees -- 4. Puppet Lessons from Alexandria and Dusseldorf -- 5. Hand, Eye, and Sky -- 6. The Grip of the Past -- 7. The Twenty-Four-Karat Thumb -- 8. The Right Hand Knows What the Left Hand Just Did -- 9. Bad Boys, Polyliths, and the Heterotechnic Revolution -- 10. The Articulate Hand -- 11. In Tune and Evolving Prestissimo -- 12. Lucy to LuLu to Rose -- 13. Tough, Tender, and Tenacious -- 14. Hidden in the Hand -- 15. Head for the Hands.
