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Title:

The politics of gesture : historical perspectives / edited by Michael J. Braddick.

Publisher:

Oxford University Press,

Copyright Date:

2009

Description:

313 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Subject:

Gesture--History.
Gesture--Political aspects.
Gesture--Cross-cultural studies.
Body language--History.
Body language--Political aspects.
Body language--Cross-cultural studies.

Other Authors:

Braddick, M. J. (Michael J.), 1962-

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

Erving Goffman and the gestural dynamics of modern selfhood / Richard Handler. Gesture in Byzantium / Leslie Brubaker -- Gestures and comportment at the Carolingian court: between practice and perception / Philippe Depreux -- Gestures of pain, implications of guilt: Mary and the Jews / Gesturing at authority: deciphering the gestural code of early modern England / John Walter -- Mutual misunderstandings: gesture, gender and healing in the African Portuguese world / James H. Sweet -- Meeting, greeting, and other 'little customs of the day' on the streets of late eighteenth-century Paris / Colin Jones -- The politics of hanging around and tagging along: everyday practices of politics in eighteenth-century Stockholm / Karin Sennefelt -- Salutation and subversion: gestural politics in nineteenth-century India / David Arnold -- 'The ultimate gesture of defence and debasement': Kowtowing in China / James L. Hevia -- Expiation as performative rhetoric in National-Catholicism: the politics of gesture in post-Civil War Spain / Mary Vincent -- Embodying the self: gestures and dictatorship in twentieth-century Germany / Mary Fulbrook -- Erving Goffman and the gestural dynamics of modern selfhood / Richard Handler.

Series:

Past and present supplement ; [new ser], v. 4

ISBN:

0199583056
9780199583058

OCLC:

(OCoLC)458574448

Locations:

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)