General Information

Language

English.

Published

Oxford ; New York : Oxford Journals : Oxford University Press, 2009.

Physical Description

313 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Series

Past and present supplements ; new ser., v. 4.

Contributors

Contributor

Braddick, M. J. (Michael J.), 1962-

Past and Present Society.

Subjects

Subject

Nonverbal communication > Cross-cultural studies.

Gesture > Cross-cultural studies.

Body language > Cross-cultural studies.

Bibliographic Information

Responsibility

edited by Michael J. Braddick.

Series

Past and present supplement ; [new ser.], v. 4

Content

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.

ISBN

9780199583058

0199583056

Holdings

Item Type	Current Location	Collection	Call Number	Volume Info	Shelving Location	Public Note
Book	OSA Archivum Library	Reference collection	302.222 BRA		Reference	-

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