The politics of gesture :

The politics of gesture : historical perspectives / edited by Michael J. Braddick. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford Journals : Oxford University Press, 2009. - 313 p. : ill. ; 22 cm. - Past and present supplement ; [new ser.], v. 4 . - Past and present supplements ; new ser., v. 4. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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

9780199583058 0199583056

2010285798

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015407267 Uk


Geschichte (umfassend)


Body language--Cross-cultural studies.
Gesture--Cross-cultural studies.
Nonverbal communication--Cross-cultural studies.
Gestik.
Politik.
Kultur.
Gebärde.
Politik.
Kultur.
Geste.

BF637.N66 / P655 2009

302.222 Bra/Pol