Tracing Gestures: The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Communication Gardner Amy J. Maitland
Tracing Gestures: The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Communication Gardner Amy J. Maitland This volume examines the role of gestures in past societies, exploring both how meaning was communicated…
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Tracing Gestures: The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Communication Gardner Amy J. Maitland
This volume examines the role of gestures in past societies, exploring both how meaning was communicated through bodily actions, and also how archaeologists can trace the symbolism and significance of ancient gestures, ritual practices and bodily techniques through the material remnants of past human groups.Gesture studies is an area of increasing interest within the social sciences, and the individual chapters not only respond to developments in the field, but push it forward by bringing a wide range of perspectives and approaches into dialogue with one another. Each exhibits a critical and reflexive approach to bodily communication and to re-tracing bodies through the archaeological record (in art, the treatment of the body and material culture), and together they demonstrate the diversity of pioneering global research on gestures in archaeology and related disciplines, with