{"product_id":"signature-9781501353345","title":"Signature","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Hunter Dukes\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Anthropology - Cultural \u0026amp; Social\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eObject Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhy do we sign our names? How can a squiggle both enslave and liberate? Signatures often require a witness-as if the scrawl itself is not enough. What other kinds of beliefs and longings justify our signing practices? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ci\u003eSignature\u003c\/i\u003e addresses these questions as it roams from a roundtable on the Greek island of Syros, to a scene of handwriting analysis conducted in an English pub, from a wedding in Moscow, where guests sign the bride's body, to a San Franciscan tattoo parlor interested in arcane forms. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe signature's history encompasses ancient handprints on cave walls, autograph hunters, the branding of slaves, metaphysical poetry, medical malpractice, hip-hop lyrics, legal challenges to electronic signatures, ice cores harvested from Greenland, and tales of forgery and autopens. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePart cultural chronicle, part travelogue, \u003ci\u003eSignature\u003c\/i\u003e pursues the identifying marks made by people, animals, and planetary forces, revealing the stories and fantasies hidden in their signatures. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eObject Lessons is published in partnership with an essay series in \u003ci\u003eThe Atlantic\u003c\/i\u003e.","brand":"Bloomsbury Academic","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":45086341202071,"sku":"9781501353345","price":785.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781501353345.webp?v=1769202204","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/signature-9781501353345","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}