Tracing Gestures

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.

List of Figures
List of Tables
List of Contributors
Editors’ Preface
Series Preface

Introduction: Tracing Gestures in the Ancient World (Amy J. Maitland Gardner, University College London, UK and Carl Walsh, The Barnes Foundation, USA)

PART 1: THE MATERIALITY OF GESTURE

1. In Touch with the Minoans: Gestural Performance and Experience in Bronze Age Crete (Christine Morris, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland and Lucy Goodison, Independent Scholar, UK)

2. Performing Bodies and Theatrical Palaces: Courtly Gestural Vocabularies at Early Bronze Age Ebla (Carl Walsh, The Barnes Foundation, USA)

3. Aspects of Non-Verbal Communication and Rituality in Pre-Roman Banquets: The Gestures of Union (Eighth to Fifth Centuries BCE) (Audrey Gouy, University of Copenhagen, Denmark)

4. Gestures and Social Relations: The Late Neolithic Figurines of the Maltese Islands (Isabelle Vella Gregory, University of Cambridge, UK)

5. Gestures of Protection: Clay Masks of the Phoenician-Punic World (Mireia López-Bertran, Universitat de València, Spain)

PART 2: THE VISUALITY OF GESTURE

6. The Pitfalls and Potentials of Visual Evidence for the History of Gestures: The Example of Athenian Pottery (Timothy J. McNiven, Ohio State University, USA)

7. Langue du geste over the longue durée: On the Diachrony of Ritual Gestures in the Near East (David Calabro, Brigham Young University, USA)

8. Tracing the Semantics of Ancient Maya Gestures (Amy J. Maitland Gardner, University College London, UK)

9. Gesture, Posture and Meaning in the Ulúa Cultural Sphere (Kathryn M. Hudson, University at Buffalo, USA and John S. Henderson, Cornell University, USA)

10. Idealised Divinity versus Identification: Ancient ‘Lifelike’ Gestures of the Buddhist Sculptures, 500 Rakan (Christine Kuehn, Independent Scholar, Germany)

PART 3: INTERDISCIPLINARY PERSPECTIVES ON GESTURE

11. Freud’s Approach to Gesture and its Archaeological Inspiration (Josef Fulka, Charles University, Czech Republic)

12. Gestures of Making: An Exploration of Material / Body Dialogue through Art Process (Alice Clough and Fo Hamblin, Nottingham Trent University, UK)

Epilogue: Touching on the Future of Gesture (Amy J. Maitland Gardner, University College London, UK and Carl Walsh, The Barnes Foundation, Philadelphia, USA)

Index