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Description for Monkey
Paperback. In this book, Desmond Morris explores our modern, more uneasy relationship with the monkey, which has come to represent the 'primitive', destructive aspects of our own nature. Series: Animal. Num Pages: 224 pages, 60 colour, 40 black and white. BIC Classification: WNCF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 189 x 136 x 14. Weight in Grams: 358.
The monkey has remarkable intelligence and adaptibility and has enjoyed a close relationship over millennia with human societies. Monkey deities feature prominently in the ancient religions of India, China, Egypt and Central America. Among peoples of tropical Africa, monkey masks and images are still in use in various ceremonies, dances and rituals. Monkeys are present in the human arts of carving, cartoons and painting, as Desmond Morris explores in this book. Yet numerous species continue to be exploited by humans in ways as various as labouring on coconut farms, performing in many parts of Asia for tourists and in the ... Read more
The monkey has remarkable intelligence and adaptibility and has enjoyed a close relationship over millennia with human societies. Monkey deities feature prominently in the ancient religions of India, China, Egypt and Central America. Among peoples of tropical Africa, monkey masks and images are still in use in various ceremonies, dances and rituals. Monkeys are present in the human arts of carving, cartoons and painting, as Desmond Morris explores in this book. Yet numerous species continue to be exploited by humans in ways as various as labouring on coconut farms, performing in many parts of Asia for tourists and in the ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Reaktion Books United Kingdom
Number of pages
224
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2013
Series
Animal
Condition
New
Number of Pages
224
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781780230962
SKU
V9781780230962
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15
About Desmond Morris
Desmond Morris is a world-renowned zoologist and the author of many books on human behaviour. He is also a practising artist and contributed the acclaimed Owl to Reaktion's Animal series. He lives in Oxford.
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