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A Cultural history of gesture / with an introduction by Sir Keith Thomas ; edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg.

Contributor(s): Bremmer, Jan N | Roodenburg, Herman.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Ithaca, N.Y. : Cornell University Press, 1992General Notes: Based on presentations made at a colloquium held in Utrecht in the autumn of 1989.Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-260) and indexes.Description: xiv, 268 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0801427444 (cloth : acid-free paper) :; 080148023X (paper : alk. paper) :.Subject(s): Gesture -- HistoryDDC classification: 302.2/22
Contents:
Walking, standing, and sitting in ancient Greek culture / Jan Bremmer -- Gestures and conventions : the gestures of Roman actors and orators / Fritz Graf -- The rationale of gestures in the West : third to thirteenth centuries / Jean-Claude Schmitt -- The language of gesture in early modern Italy / Peter Burke -- The Renaissance elbow / Joaneath Spicer -- The order of gestures : a social history of sensibilities under the Ancien Rǧime in France / Robert Muchembled -- The 'hand of friendship' : shaking hands and other gestures in the Dutch Republic / Herman Roodenburg -- Gesture, ritual, and social order in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Poland / Maria Bogucka -- The kiss sacred and profane : reflections on a cross-cultural confrontation / Willem Frijhoff -- Gestured masculinity : body and sociability in rural Andalusia / Henk Driessen -- Gestures in history : a select bibliography / Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg.
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Based on presentations made at a colloquium held in Utrecht in the autumn of 1989.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [253]-260) and indexes.

Walking, standing, and sitting in ancient Greek culture / Jan Bremmer -- Gestures and conventions : the gestures of Roman actors and orators / Fritz Graf -- The rationale of gestures in the West : third to thirteenth centuries / Jean-Claude Schmitt -- The language of gesture in early modern Italy / Peter Burke -- The Renaissance elbow / Joaneath Spicer -- The order of gestures : a social history of sensibilities under the Ancien Rǧime in France / Robert Muchembled -- The 'hand of friendship' : shaking hands and other gestures in the Dutch Republic / Herman Roodenburg -- Gesture, ritual, and social order in sixteenth- to eighteenth-century Poland / Maria Bogucka -- The kiss sacred and profane : reflections on a cross-cultural confrontation / Willem Frijhoff -- Gestured masculinity : body and sociability in rural Andalusia / Henk Driessen -- Gestures in history : a select bibliography / Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg.

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