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historical perspectives

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The politics of gesture: historical perspectives
2009, Oxford Journals, Oxford University Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction: the politics of gesture -- Michael J. Braddick
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 -- Miri Rubin
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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Oxford, New York
Series
Past and present supplement -- [new ser.], v. 4, Past and present supplements -- new ser., v. 4.

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Dewey Decimal Class
302.222
Library of Congress
BF637.N66 P655 2009

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Pagination
313 p.
Number of pages
313

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL31159177M
Internet Archive
politicsofgestur0000unse
ISBN 10
0199583056
ISBN 13
9780199583058
LCCN
2010285798
OCLC/WorldCat
458574448

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