Tracing gestures : the art and archaeology of bodily communication

Weitere Verfasser: Gardner, Amy J. Maitland , [HerausgeberIn]
Walsh, Carl , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2022.
Umfang/Format: xiv, 256 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Schriftenreihe: UCL World archaeology series 1
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction : tracing gestures in the ancient world / Amy J. Maitland Gardner and Carl Walsh
  • In touch with the Minoans : gestural performance and experience in Bronze Age Crete / Christine Morris and Lucy Goodison
  • Performing bodies and theatrical palaces : courtly gestural vocabularies at early Bronze Age Ebla / Carl Walsh
  • Important aspects of non-verbal communication and rituality in pre-Roman banquets : the gestures of union (eighth to fifth centuries BCE) / Audrey Gouy
  • Gestures and social relations : the late Neolithic figurines of the Maltese islands / Isabelle Vella Gregory
  • Gestures of protection : clay masks of the Phoenician-Punic world / Mireia López-Bertran
  • The pitfalls and potentials of visual evidence for the history of gestures : the example of Athenian pottery / Timothy J. McNiven
  • Langue du geste over the longue durée : on the diachrony of ritual gestures in the Near East / David Calabro
  • Tracing the semantics of ancient Maya gestures / Amy J. Maitland Gardner
  • Gesture, posture and meaning in the Ulúa cultural sphere / Kathryn M. Hudson and John S. Henderson
  • Idealized divinity versus identification : ancient 'lifelike' gestures of the Buddhist statues 五百羅漢 (500 Rakan) / Christine Kuehn
  • Freud's approach to gesture and its archaeological inspiration / Josef Fulka
  • Gestures of making : an exploration of material / body dialogue through art process / Alice Clough and Fo Hamblin
  • Epilogue : touching on the future of gesture / Amy J. Maitland Gardner and Carl Walsh.