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A0 INTRODUCTION

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WHAT IS A GESTURE?

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John Bulwer. Chirologia: or The natural language of the hand , 1644

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CATEGORIES OF GESTURES

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http://dismagazine.com/blog/54767/critical-hand-gestures/

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MEANING OF A GESTURE

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Dmitri Vrubel “Leo Brezhnev and Erich Honecker“

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Giotto “The kiss of Judas” 1337

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A GESTURE ARCHEOLOGY

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https://youtu.be/QbaqpCqqPmE

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LaMont Hamilton, " Five on the Black Hand Side"

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https://youtu.be/ZT0kYLeKgl0

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Tyler Parry, an assistant professor of African-American and African diasporic studies at UNLV, has tracked accounts of very intricate handshakes in Sierra Leone and elsewhere. He argued that “the smooth gliding of skin-to-skin contact, interlocking fingers, and the expressive snaps at the end of the gesture are present in both the historical and modern examples.”

In A Voyage to the River Sierra-Leone, trader John Matthews noted that friends in this region had various expressions when greeting each other, including a process in which they would “shake hands, and snap the finger and thumb” (97). Similarly, in the mid-1850s Missionary George Thompson observed different groups in Sierra Leone employing elaborate handshakes: “if long separated, they put their hands on each other’s shoulders, draw them down each other’s arms, and rub the hands together, always closing off with a very expressive snap of the finger.”

Tyler Parry, Diasporic Salutations and the West African Origins of the ‘Dap’, <https://www.aaihs.org/diasporic-salutations-and-the-west-african-origins-of-the-dap/>

The Ghanaian Handshake

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F8KCXY2ublY

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https://youtu.be/QNbdn0yuUw8

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https://youtu.be/oOzLujqFSzw

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WAYS OF ARCHIVING

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John Berger / Ways of Seeing , Episode 1 (1972)

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Eadweard Muybridge sequence

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Aby Warburg , " Mnemosyne Atlas"

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Alexis Blake , " Allegory of the Painted Woman"

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Martin Syms "Notes on Gesture" 2015

https://www.vdb.org/titles/notes-gesture

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