A Cultural history of gesture : from antiquity to the present day /
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Cambridge, UK : Cambridge, Mass. :
Polity Press ; B.Blackwell,
1991.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.