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Migrations of gesture / Carrie Noland and Sally Ann Ness, editors.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Gesture.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (325 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2008.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Derived from the Latin verb "gerere"-to carry, act, or do-"gesture" has accrued critical currency but has remained undertheorized. Migrations of Gesture addresses this absence and provides a complex theory on the value of gesture for understanding human sign production.Contributors: Mark Franko, Ketu H. Katrak, Akira Mizuta Lippit, Susan A. Phillips, Deidre Sklar, Lesley Stern, Blake Stimson.
- Contents:
- The inscription of gesture: inward migrations in dance / Sally Ann Ness
- Physical graffiti west / Susan A. Phillips
- Gesture and abstraction / Blake Stimson
- Remembering kinesthesia / Deidre Sklar
- Digesture / Akira Mizuta Lippit
- Miming signing / Carrie Noland
- Ghosting / Lesley Stern
- The gestures of Bharata Natyam / Ketu H. Katrak
- Mimique / Mark Franko.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-8166-5651-7
- OCLC:
- 476167499
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