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"Andrea de Jorio's La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano (Gestural Expression of the Ancients in the Light of Neapolitan Gesturing) was first published in Naples in 1832. It is the first book ever written which presents what is, in effect, an ethnographic study of gesture.
Treating gesture as a culturally established communicative code, analogous to language, the book sets out to describe, with reference to an explicitly defined cultural group, the gestural expressions of ordinary people as these are used in every-day life.
It also deals with numerous issues important for any semiotics of gesture, such as the question of the relationship between physical forms and meaning, the problem of how to present a description of the gestural repertoire of a community in a consistent manner, the importance of context for the interpretation of gesture, how gestures may be combined, and how they develop as metaphorical expressions."--BOOK JACKET.
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Gesture, Social life and customs, Semantics (meaning), Italy - History, Manners And Customs, History, Sociology, Hellenic languages, History: American, Italy, General, Ancient and Classical, Customs & Traditions, Europe - Italy, Naples (Italy), Italy, social life and customsPlaces
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Gesture in Naples and gesture in classical antiquity: a translation of La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano, Gestural expression of the ancients in the light of Neapolitan gesturing
2000, Indiana University Press
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Gesture in Naples and Gesture in Classical Antiquity: A Translation of LA Mimica Degli Antichi Investigata Nel Gestire Napoletano, Gestural Expression ... Neapolitan gesturing (Advances in Semiotics)
December 1999, Indiana University Press
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [491]-517) and indexes.
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