Tracing Gestures: The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Communication

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Dr Amy J. Maitland Gardner (University College London, UK) Dr Carl Walsh (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, USA.)

Tracing Gestures

The Art and Archaeology of Bodily Communication

Dr Amy J. Maitland Gardner (University College London, UK), Dr Carl Walsh (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, USA.), Carl Walsh (The Barnes Foundation USA)

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Bloomsbury Academic
22 February 2024

History of Art & Design Styles; Human figures depicted in art; Archaeology; Social & cultural anthropology

Series: UCL World Archaeology Series

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 contributions from leading researchers in Aegean, Mediterranean, Mesoamerican, Japanese and Near Eastern archaeology.

By bringing case studies from each of these different cultures and regions together and drawing on interdisciplinary insights from anthropology, sociology, psychology, linguistics, design, art history and the performing arts, this volume reveals the similarities and differences in gestures as expressed in cultures around the world, and offers new and valuable perspectives on the nature of bodily communication across both space and time.

Edited by: Dr Amy J. Maitland Gardner (University College London UK), Dr Carl Walsh (Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, USA.), Carl Walsh (The Barnes Foundation USA)
Imprint: Bloomsbury Academic
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 234mm, Width: 156mm, Spine: 25mm
Weight: 454g
ISBN: 9781350276994
ISBN 10: 1350276995
Series: UCL World Archaeology Series
Pages: 274
Publication Date: 22 February 2024
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Amy J. Maitland Gardner is an alumna of the Institute of Archaeology at University College London, UK. Carl Walsh is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Barnes Foundation, USA.