A cultural history of gesture : from antiquity to the present day / edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg ; with an introduction by Sir Keith Thomas.

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A cultural history of gesture : from antiquity to the present day / edited by Jan Bremmer and Herman Roodenburg ; with an introduction by Sir Keith Thomas.