Skin: a natural history

by Jablonski, Nina G.

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Title Statements

Full title :Skin : a natural history / Nina G. Jablonski.

Summary

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.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2006.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):University of California Press
Place of Publication:Berkeley
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2006.

The Physical Object

Description:xiii, 266 pages : : illustrations (some color), maps (some color) ; : 23 cm

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:0520242815, 9780520242814, 0520256247, 9780520256248
oclc:ocm64592114
LC Classification:QP88.5
Dewey Decimal:612.7/9

Skin laid bare -- History -- Sweat -- Skin and sun -- Skin's dark secret -- Color -- Touch -- Emotions, sex, and skin -- Wear and tear -- Statements -- Future skin.

Subjects

Angewandte Anthropologie Haut Hud -- historia huid Kulturgeschichtsschreibung Peau Peau -- Physiologie Skin Skin -- Care Skin -- Physiology Skin Diseases -- physiopathology Skin Physiological Phenomena Skin Pigmentation -- physiology