Manwatching

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'A fascinating guide to gestures superbly illustrated one of the best presented books I have ever seen'
NEW SCIENTIST
Manwatching is a new, different way of looking at your fellow man. In Manwatching, Desmond Morris has taken his work on human behaviour an important step beyond the controversial ideas set out in his earlier work, The Naked Ape, and presents the familiar in an unfamiliar light. He shows how people - even in a highly ordered modern society - signal to each other their attitudes, desires and innermost feelings more powerfully through unconscious bodily movements than by word of mouth.
Since writing The Naked Ape, Dr Morris has visited fifteen countries, collecting countless observations of ways in which people act - in public and in private. Now with the aid of a remarkable collection of drawings, photographs and historical prints, he guides the reader through a fascinating labyrinth of hunting, mating, status, territorial, leadership, ritual and taboo gestures... Tovább

Fülszöveg

'A fascinating guide to gestures superbly illustrated one of the best presented books I have ever seen'
NEW SCIENTIST
Manwatching is a new, different way of looking at your fellow man. In Manwatching, Desmond Morris has taken his work on human behaviour an important step beyond the controversial ideas set out in his earlier work, The Naked Ape, and presents the familiar in an unfamiliar light. He shows how people - even in a highly ordered modern society - signal to each other their attitudes, desires and innermost feelings more powerfully through unconscious bodily movements than by word of mouth.
Since writing The Naked Ape, Dr Morris has visited fifteen countries, collecting countless observations of ways in which people act - in public and in private. Now with the aid of a remarkable collection of drawings, photographs and historical prints, he guides the reader through a fascinating labyrinth of hunting, mating, status, territorial, leadership, ritual and taboo gestures and postures. For to understand what it is that makes people tick is to gain tolerance when confronted with human conflicts and tensions. And far from becoming remote, the manwatcher instead finds himself more at ease in difficult situations and more deeply involved with his fellow men.
'A clear and careful introduction to an involved subject'
THE TIMES
'Witty observation and some fascinating laboratory work'
THE GUARDIAN
'Full of fascinatingly reductive and revealing insights counterpointed'by clever illustration'
'There are subjects - and Dr Morris's is one of them -that are too entertaining not to fall upon with delight'
THE LISTENER
'I find that Morris alerts me on nearly every page to phenomena, aspects, and implications that I had either overlooked or taken for granted. In my view, this is an extremely important book'
NIKOTINBERGEN,
Nobel prizewinner and Emeritus Professor of Animal Beliaviour, Oxford University
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Desmond Monris's bestselling classic THE NAKED APE Vissza