The politics of gesture
Subtitle: historical perspectives
By: edited by Michael J. Braddick
Contributors: Past and Present Society
Series: Past and present supplement -- [new ser.], v. 4; Past and present supplements -- new ser., v. 4.
Publisher: Oxford Journals; Oxford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 313
ISBN-13: 9780199583058
Subjects: Body language; Cross-cultural studies; Gesture; Nonverbal communication; Gestik; Politik; Kultur; Gebärde; Geste
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: the politics of gesture  -- Michael J. Braddick; title: Gesture in Byzantium  -- Leslie Brubaker; title: Gestures and comportment at the Carolingian court: between practice and perception  -- Philippe Depreux; title: Gestures of pain, implications of guilt: Mary and the Jews  -- Miri Rubin; title: Gesturing at authority: deciphering the gestural code of early modern England  -- John Walter; title: Mutual misunderstandings: gesture, gender and healing in the African Portuguese world  -- James H. Sweet; title: Meeting, greeting, and other 'little customs of the day' on the streets of late eighteenth-century Paris  -- Colin Jones; title: The politics of hanging around and tagging along: everyday practices of politics in eighteenth-century Stockholm  -- Karin Sennefelt; title: Salutation and subversion: gestural politics in nineteenth-century India  -- David Arnold; title: 'The ultimate gesture of defence and debasement': Kowtowing in China  -- James L. Hevia; title: Expiation as performative rhetoric in National-Catholicism: the politics of gesture in post-Civil War Spain  -- Mary Vincent; title: Embodying the self: gestures and dictatorship in twentieth-century Germany  -- Mary Fulbrook; title: Erving Goffman and the gestural dynamics of modern selfhood -- Richard Handler.