A Cultural history of gesture : from antiquity to the present day /

Other Authors: Bremmer, Jan N., Roodenburg, Herman
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, UK : Cambridge, Mass. : Polity Press ; B.Blackwell, 1991.
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245 2 |a A Cultural history of gesture :  |b from antiquity to the present day /  |c with an introduction by Sir Keith Thomas ; edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg. 
260 2 |a Cambridge, UK :  |b Polity Press ;  |c 1991.  |a Cambridge, Mass. :  |b B.Blackwell, 
300 2 |a xiv, 268 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
500 2 |a Based on presentations made at a colloquium held in Utrecht in the autumn of 1989. 
504 2 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-260) and indexes. 
505 2 |a 1. Walking, standing, and sitting in ancient Greek culture / JanBremmer -- 2. Gestures and conventions: the gestures of Roman actorsand orators / Fritz Graf -- 3. The rationale of gestures in the West:third to thirteenth centuries / Jean-Claude Schmitt -- 4. The languageof gesture in early modern Italy / Peter Burke -- 5. The Renaissanceelbow / Joaneth Spicer -- 6. The order of gestures: a social history ofsensibilities under the Ancien Regime in France / Robert Muchembled --7. The 'hand of friendship': shaking hands and other gestures in theDutch Republic / Herman Roodenburg -- 8. Gesture, ritual, and socialorder in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Poland / Maria Bogucka -- 9.The kiss sacred and profane: reflections on a cross-culturalconfrontation / Willen Frijhoff -- 10. Gestured masculinity: body andsociability in Andalusia / Henk Driessen. 
650 2 |a Gesture  |x History. 
650 2 |a Gesture  |x History 
650 2 |a Gesture in art 
650 2 |a Symbolism in art 
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700 1 2 |a Roodenburg, Herman 
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