Michelangelo's finger : an exploration of everyday transcendence /
Tallis, Raymond.
Michelangelo's finger : an exploration of everyday transcendence / Raymond Tallis. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2010. - xxii, 166 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-158) and index.
How to point : a primer for Martians -- What it takes to be a pointer -- Do animals get the point? -- People who don't point -- Pinning language to the world -- Pointing and power -- Assisted pointing and pointing by proxy -- The transcendent animal : pointing and the beyond.
Proposes that the index finger and the gesture of pointing distinguishes humans from other species, and that the symbolism behind different types of pointing may have played an important part in human evolution and development.
9780300166484 (alk. paper) 0300166486 (alk. paper)
2010923125
Pointing (Gesture)
Nonverbal communication.
Communication and culture.
Human evolution.
Human evolution--Philosophy.
Fingers.
P117.7 / .T35 2010
Michelangelo's finger : an exploration of everyday transcendence / Raymond Tallis. - New Haven [Conn.] : Yale University Press, 2010. - xxii, 166 p. ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 144-158) and index.
How to point : a primer for Martians -- What it takes to be a pointer -- Do animals get the point? -- People who don't point -- Pinning language to the world -- Pointing and power -- Assisted pointing and pointing by proxy -- The transcendent animal : pointing and the beyond.
Proposes that the index finger and the gesture of pointing distinguishes humans from other species, and that the symbolism behind different types of pointing may have played an important part in human evolution and development.
9780300166484 (alk. paper) 0300166486 (alk. paper)
2010923125
Pointing (Gesture)
Nonverbal communication.
Communication and culture.
Human evolution.
Human evolution--Philosophy.
Fingers.
P117.7 / .T35 2010