Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley door pickup 10am - 7pm 3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611

  • Open Daily: 10am - 10pm
    Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm

    3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
    612-822-4611

Open Daily: 10am - 10pm | Alley-side Pickup: 10am - 7pm
3038 Hennepin Ave Minneapolis, MN
612-822-4611
The Right Hand and the Left Hand of History: A Special Issue of Laterality

The Right Hand and the Left Hand of History: A Special Issue of Laterality

McManus, Chris
Nicholls, Michael
Vallortigara, Giorgio

Paperback

Series: Special Issues of Laterality

Cognition

Currently unavailable to order

ISBN10: 1032923407
ISBN13: 9781032923406
Publisher: Psychology Press
Published: Oct 14 2024
Pages: 288
Language: English

Left-handers have been described as a people without a history. This special issue provides scholarly analyses of aspects of asymmetry in history, from the Renaissance to the 20th Century.

  • Lauren Harris presents three studies describing:
    • An 1811 American child-care manual for parents fearing, lest their children should be left-handed;
    • Manuals on swordsmanship from the Renaissance onwards describing the accepted minority of left-handed swordsmen, a minority that still dominates the Olympics;
    • The enigmatic bias whereby parents use their left arm to carry babies;
  • Janet Snowman and Stephen Christman present two papers on left-handed musical geniuses:
    • William Crotch, the self-taught, 18th Century, musical prodigy, whose unconventional left-handed playing styles stimulate many questions about the asymmetries of stringed instruments;
    • Jimi Hendrix, the 20th Century, left-handed, guitarist of whom Robert Krieger said, ... he was just so different. He just came from such a left-field place.
  • Chris McManus, Richard Rawles, James Moore and Matthew Freegard describe an early BBC TV programme presented in 1953 by Jacob Bronowski on right and left-handedness. In an early example of viewer participation, 6000 people sent postcards describing their handedness and also their perceptions of a mystery picture, that was the duck-rabbit figure from Wittgenstein's recently published Philosophical Investigations.
  • Chris McManus and Janet Snowman describe A left-handed compliment, a newly discovered lithograph by John Lewis Marks (ca. 1795-6 - ca. 1857-61). Given Marks',seeming love of vulgarity for its own sake, there is probably an obscene sub-text reminiscent of a Donald McGill postcard.

1 different editions

Also available

Also from

McManus, Chris

View All

Also in

Cognition

View All