Skin: a natural history

Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This synthetic overview, written with a poetic touch and taking many intriguing side excursions, is a guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are. This book cele...

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1. Verfasser: Jablonski, Nina G. (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Berkeley, Calif. [u.a.] Univ. of California Press 2006
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Zusammenfassung:Our intimate connection with the world, skin protects us while advertising our health, our identity, and our individuality. This synthetic overview, written with a poetic touch and taking many intriguing side excursions, is a guidebook to the pliable covering that makes us who we are. This book celebrates the evolution of three unique attributes of human skin: its naked sweatiness, its distinctive sepia rainbow of colors, and its remarkable range of decorations. Author Jablonski begins with a look at skin's structure and functions and then tours its three-hundred-million-year evolution, delving into such topics as the importance of touch and how the skin reflects and affects emotions. She examines the modern human obsession with age-related changes in skin, especially wrinkles, then turns to skin as a canvas for self-expression, exploring our use of cosmetics, body paint, tattooing, and scarification.--From publisher description.
Beschreibung:Includes bibliographical references and index
Beschreibung:XIII, 266 S., [6] Bl. Ill., Kt.
ISBN:0520242815
9780520242814

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