A cultural history of gesture : from antiquity to the present day /
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| Format: | Conference Proceeding Book |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, England :
Polity Press,
[1991]
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| ISBN: | 0745607861 9780745607863 |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Walking, standing, and sitting in ancient Greek culture / Jan Bremmer
- 2. Gestures and conventions: the gestures of Roman actors and orators / Fritz Graf
- 3. The rationale of gestures in the West: third to thirteenth centuries / Jean-Claude Schmitt
- 4. The language of gesture in early modern Italy / Peter Burke
- 5. The Renaissance elbow / Joaneth Spicer
- 6. The order of gestures: a social history of sensibilities under the Ancien Régime in France / Robert Muchembled
- 7. The 'hand of friendship': shaking hands and other gestures in the Dutch Republic / Herman Roodenburg
- 8. Gesture, ritual, and social order in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Poland / Maria Bogucka
- 9. The kiss sacred and profane: reflections on a cross-cultural confrontation / Willen Frijhoff
- 10. Gestured masculinity: body and sociability in Andalusia / Henk Driessen.