The Handshake
A Gripping History
(Sprache: Englisch)
This quirky and engaging history reveals the secrets of one of our most ancient social gestures
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This quirky and engaging history reveals the secrets of one of our most ancient social gestures
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A TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR'It's a little book of wonder, it's fantastic' Chris Evans
'A fabulously sparky, wide-ranging and horizon-broadening little study ... joyously unboring' Sunday Times
Friends do it, strangers do it and so do chimpanzees - and it's not just deeply embedded in our history and culture, it may even be written in our DNA. The humble handshake, it turns out, has a rich and surprising history.
So let's join palaeoanthropologist Ella Al-Shamahi as she embarks on a funny and fascinating voyage of discovery - from the handshake's origins (at least seven million years ago) all the way to its sudden disappearance in March 2020. Drawing on new research, anthropological insights and first-hand experience, she'll reveal how this most friendly of gestures has played a role in everything from meetings with uncontacted tribes to political assassinations - and what it tells us about the enduring power of human contact.
Because the story of the handshake ... is far from over.
Autoren-Porträt von Ella Al-Shamahi
Ella Al-Shamahi is a National Geographic Explorer, paleoanthropologist, evolutionary biologist and stand-up comic. She specialises in Neanderthals, caves and expeditions in hostile, disputed and unstable territories. She is a TV presenter, a TED 2019 speaker and has taken 4 shows up to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. She has degrees in Genetics, Taxonomy and Biodiversity and is undertaking her PhD in Palaeoanthropology.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Ella Al-Shamahi
- 2021, 176 Seiten, Maße: 14 x 20,6 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Profile Books
- ISBN-10: 1788167805
- ISBN-13: 9781788167802
- Erscheinungsdatum: 22.03.2021
Sprache:
Englisch
Pressezitat
Al-Shamahi's beguiling book has a more general claim to attention than merely being an account of the crisis in manners that Covid has made ... cheerful, witty and well-researched. Stephen Bayley Spectator
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