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

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Series: Past and present supplements ; new ser., v. 4.Publication details: Oxford ; New York : Oxford Journals : Oxford University Press, 2009.Description: 313 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:
  • 9780199583058
  • 0199583056
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 302.222 Bra/Pol
LOC classification:
  • BF637.N66 P655 2009
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.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

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.