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  • How to be an absolutely smashing public speaker, without saying anything. Rescued from the archives of the 1890's by David Hoffman. With a foreward and irreverent comments by Kristi Witker.

    • Text
    • New York, American Heritage Press [1970]
    • 1970-1892
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text JFD 71-214Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Idées sur le geste et l'action théatrale; par M. Engel ... suivies d'une lettre, du même auteur, sur la peinture musicale. Le tout traduit de l'allemand. Avec 34 planches.

    • Text
    • Paris, Chez Barrois, l'aîné, libraire; Strasbourg, A la Librairie Académique; La Haye, Chez Van Cleef, libraire, 1788-89.
    • 1788-1789
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text *MGRI-Res. 72-481Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • The mirror of gesture : being the Abhinaya darpana of Nandikeśvara / translated into English by Ananda Coomaraswamy and Gopala Kristnayya Duggirala.

    • Text
    • New Delhi : Munshiram Manoharlal, [1970]
    • 1970
    • 2 Items
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    Book/text *MGS (Hindu) 73-344Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    Book/text *OKOM (Nandikeśvara. Mirror of gesture. 1970)Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Chirologia: or, The natural language of the hand, and Chironomia: or, The art of manual rhetoric. Edited by James W. Cleary. Foreword by David Potter.

    • Text
    • Carbondale, Southern Illinois University Press [1974]
    • 1974
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text JFE 74-1510Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315
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  • Thus speaks the body; attempts toward a personology from the point of view of respiration and postures.

    • Text
    • New York, Arno Press, 1972.
    • 1972-1963
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text *MGRT 81-140Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Les Sentiments, la musique et le geste.

    • Text
    • Grenoble, H. Falque et F. Perrin, 1900.
    • 1900
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text MWEQ [RBS] 97-317Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • La mesure des gestes. Prolégomènes à la sémiotique gestuelle.

    • Text
    • The Hague, Mouton, 1973.
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text JFE 74-2945Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Mime: the theory and practice of expressive gesture, with a description of its historical development. With drawings by Peter Revitt.

    • Text
    • [Brooklyn, Dance Horizons, 1973, c1957]
    • 1973-1957
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text *MGTM 75-58Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Københavnske bilisters gestus. En morfologisk-metodisk undersøgelse.

    • Text
    • København, Akademisk forlag; Eksp.: DBK, 1972.
    • 1972
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text JFD 75-1337Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Anthropological perspectives of movement.

    • Text
    • New York, Arno Press, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text JFE 75-2842Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Mudrācitrasaṅgrahaḥ. [Paṇḍitabuddhisāgaraśarmaṇaḥ Adhyakṣat̨ay̨aṃ Samp̨aditaḥ.]

    • Text
    • [Kāṣṭhmaṇḍapaḥ, Vīrapustakālayataḥ, 1962]
    • 1962
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text *OLT 76-2576Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • L'anthropologie du geste/ Marcel Jousse.

    • Text
    • [Paris] Gallimard [1974-78]
    • 1974-1978
    • 3 Items
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    Book/text *PYW 76-2764Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111

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    Book/text *PYW 76-2764Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111

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    Book/text *PYW 76-2764Schwarzman Building - Dorot Jewish Division Room 111

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  • Nandikesvara's Abhinayadarpaṇam : a manual of gesture and posture used in ancient Indian dance and drama / English translation and notes together with the text critically edited for the first time from original manuscripts with introduction and illustrations / [edited and translated] by Manomohan Ghosh. - 3d ed., thoro[u]ghly rev. -

    • Text
    • Calcutta : Manisha Granthalaya, 1975.
    • 1975
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text *OKOM 77-1748Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Bhāratīya nāṭya paramparā aura Abhinayadarpaṇa. [1. Saṃskaraṇa]

    • Text
    • Ilāhābāda, Samvartikā Prakāśana [1967]
    • 1967
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text *MGS (Hindu) 77-2233Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Manwatching : a field guide to human behaviour / Desmond Morris.

    • Text
    • London : Cape, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text JFF 78-1341Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • História dos nossos gestos : uma pesquisa na mímica do Brasil / Luís da Câmara Cascudo.

    • Text
    • São Paulo : Edições Melhoramentos, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text JFE 79-1460Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • A study in hand gestures; the ninth chapter of Bharata's Nátyaśastra translated and explained [by] Minati Das.

    • Text
    • Marburg, 1961.
    • 1961
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text *MGS (Hindu) 78-3582Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • A comunicação gestual : análise semiótica de danças folclóricas nordestinas / Eudenise de Albuquerque Limeira.

    • Text
    • Rio de Janeiro : Editora Rio, [19]77.
    • 1900-1981
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text *MGS (Brazilian) 79-3582Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Il linguaggio del gesto / Giuseppe Cocchiara ; nota introduttiva di Silvana Miceli.

    • Text
    • Palermo : Sellerio, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text JFD 80-3479Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Abhinaya darpana. Sampādaka Mṛgendramāna Siṃha Pradhāna. - 1. Saṃskaraṇa.

    • Text
    • Kīrtipura, Pāṭhyakrama Vikāsa Kendra, Tribhuvana Viśvavidyālaya, 1976.
    • 1976
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text *MGS (Hindu) 79-4250Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Briefe über die Tanzkunst und über die Ballette / aus d. Franz. übers. vom Herrn Noverre ; mit Nachw., Verz. d. literar. Arbeiten von Noverre, Werkverz. d. Choreographien, empfehlender Bibliogr. u. Reg. von Kurt Petermann. Fotomechan. Neudr. d. Orig.-Ausg. Hamburg, Bremen, 1769.

    • Text
    • Leipzig : Zentralantiquariat der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik, 1977.
    • 1977-1769
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text *MGRK 81-429Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Introduction to kinesics; an annotation system for analysis of body motion and gesture [by] Ray L. Birdwhistell.

    • Text
    • Louisville, Ky., University of Louisville, [1973]
    • 1973
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text JFF 80-956Offsite
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  • Gestures : their origins and distribution / Desmond Morris [et al.]

    • Text
    • London : Jonathan Cape, 1979.
    • 1979
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text JFE 82-661Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Le langage des gestes rituels / Hermann Hochegger ; dessins, Binia Binalbe & Ngana Mulwa.

    • Text
    • Bandundu [Zaire] : Ceeba, c1981-1983.
    • 1981-1983
    • 3 Items
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    Book/text Sc Ser.-L .H635Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Book/text Sc Ser.-L .H635Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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    Book/text Sc Ser.-L .H635Schomburg Center - Research & Reference

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  • Le langage gestuel en Afrique Centrale / Hermann Hochegger.

    • Text
    • Bandundu, République du Zaïre : Centre d'études ethnologiques, [1978?]
    • 1978
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text JFM 74-101Offsite
  • Speech, place, and action : studies of deixis and related topics / edited by Robert J. Jarvella and Wolfgang Klein.

    • Text
    • Chichester [West Sussex] ; New York : Wiley, c1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text JFE 84-1099Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Notebook on gesture [microform] / Effie Georgine Kuhn.

    • Text
    • [19--]
    • 1900-1983
  • Sekai 20-kakoku nonbābaru jiten / Kanayama Nobuo cho.

    • Text
    • Tōkyō : Kenkyūsha Shuppan, Shōwa 58 [1983]
    • 1983
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text *OSD 90-2768Offsite
  • Classicistic acting : two centuries of a performance tradition at the Amsterdam Schouwburg : to which is appended an annotated translation of the "Lessons on the principles of gesticulation and mimic expression" of Johannes Jelgerhuis, Rz / by Alfred Siemon Golding.

    • Text
    • Lanham, MD : University Press of America, c1984.
    • 1984
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text MWEQ 84-1812Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • Gesture, race and culture; a tentative study of the spatio-temporal and "linguistic" aspects of the gestural behavior of eastern Jews and southern Italians in New York City, living under similar as well as different environmental conditions. Sketches by Stuyvesant van Veen.

    • Text
    • The Hague, Mouton, 1972.
    • 1972-1941
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text JFE 84-3299Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Lettres sur la danse et les arts imitateurs / Noverre ; [préparé et réd. par Fernand Divoire].

    • Text
    • Paris : Librairie théatrale, 1977.
    • 1977
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text *MGRK 84-2256Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Kort udtog af den efter konsten indrettede dantse-exercitii nytte : hvorudi vises, hvormeget samme contribuerer til en behageliggiørende opførsel for unge folk : og særdeles hvorledes man ved alle leyligheder kand 1. regelmæssig staae, 2. regelmæssig gaae, 3. regelmæssig giøre reverencer : til repetitions brug for scholarer / forfattet af Gottfried Taubert ... ; men nu fordansket og udgivet af Henrich Hieronymi ... og findes til kiøbs paa Ulfelds-Plads.

    • Text
    • Kiøbenhavn : Trykt hos Niels Hansen Møller, [1742]
    • 1742
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text *MGRK 87-6211Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • L'arte di gestire con le mani / Vincenzo Requeno ; a cura di Giovanni R. Ricci.

    • Text
    • Palermo : Sellerio, c1982.
    • 1982
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text JFD 88-6167Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Posture and gesture / by P.E. Bull.

    • Text
    • Oxford [Oxfordshire] ; New York : Pergamon Press, 1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text JFE 88-4749Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Body code : the meaning in movement / Warren Lamb and Elizabeth Watson ; drawings by Clare Jarrett.

    • Text
    • Princeton, N.J. : Princeton Book Co., 1987, c1979.
    • 1987-1979
    • 2 Items
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    Book/text *MGRZ 92-957Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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    Book/text JFD 89-8271Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • The oral style / Marcel Jousse ; translated from the French by Edgard Sienaert and Richard Whitaker.

    • Text
    • New York : Garland Pub., 1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text JFD 90-11596Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Gestures and speech : psychological investigations / Pierre Feyereisen, Jacques-Dominique de Lannoy.

    • Text
    • Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press ; Paris : Maison des sciences de l'homme, 1991.
    • 1991
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text JFE 92-113Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Illustrations of gesture from painting, sculpture, dramatic productions / Effie Georgine Kuhn.

    • Text
    • [ca. 1920]
    • 1920
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text MWEQ+ 82-1229Performing Arts Research Collections - Theatre

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  • La mimica degli antichi investigata nel gestire napoletano / Andrea de Jorio ; con prefazione di Giuseppe Cocchiara.

    • Text
    • Napoli : Associazione Napoletana per i Monumenti e il Paesaggio, 1964.
    • 1964-1832
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text JFE 90-96Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Hand and mind : what gestures reveal about thought / David McNeill.

    • Text
    • Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
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    Book/text JFE 92-8881Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Comunicazione e gestualità / a cura di Pio E. Ricci Bitti.

    • Text
    • Milano, Italy : F. Angeli, c1987.
    • 1987
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text JFD 93-2090Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Die Entwicklung visueller Zeichensysteme : von der Geste zur Gebärdensprache / von Marianne Kugler-Kruse.

    • Text
    • Bochum : Brockmeyer, 1988.
    • 1988
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text JFD 93-7451Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Théâtres et scènes de spectacle : études sur les dramaturgies et les arts gestuels / Pius Ngandu Nkashama.

    • Text
    • Paris : L'Harmattan, c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text MWEL (Africa) 93-10901Offsite
  • Gesture and speech / André Leroi-Gourhan ; translated from the French by Anna Bostock Berger.

    • Text
    • Cambridge, Mass. : MIT Press, c1993.
    • 1993
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text JFE 93-8126Schwarzman Building - General Research Room 315

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  • Movement and gesture : the illustrated technics and basics of pantomime : a guidebook = Bewegung und Körpersprache : ein Lehrbuch über die Grundlagen und Technik der Pantomime / Yanci ; fotos, Joachim Heinatz ; [Deutschsprachige Textfassung, Etta Degener].

    • Text
    • Wilhelmshaven : Noetzel, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/text *MGR 93-1718Performing Arts Research Collections - Dance

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  • Die Sprache der Zeichen und Bilder : Rhetorik und nonverbale Kommunikation in der frühen Neuzeit / Volker Kapp (Hrsg.).

    • Text
    • Marburg : Hitzeroth, c1990.
    • 1990
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text JFE 94-2006Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Mudrã : manos simbólicas en Asia y América / Samuel Martí.

    • Text
    • México : Ediciones Euroamericanas, 1992.
    • 1992
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text JFE 94-3750Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Bodytalk : a world guide to gestures / Desmond Morris.

    • Text
    • London : Jonathan Cape, 1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text JFF 95-2473Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Gestes de philosophes / Jacques Schlanger.

    • Text
    • [Paris] : Aubier, c1994.
    • 1994
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text JFE 95-11532Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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  • Gesture and the nature of language / David F. Armstrong, William C. Stokoe, Sherman E. Wilcox.

    • Text
    • Cambridge ; New York, NY, USA : Cambridge University Press, 1995.
    • 1995
    • 1 Item
    FormatCall NumberItem Location
    Book/Text JFD 95-10508Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

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