Gesture in Naples and gesture in classical antiquity. Author: de Jorio, Andrea Published: 2000 A translation into English, by Adam Kendon, of a book first published in Naples in 1832, which soom became famous for its descriptions and depictions of Napolitan gestures of the time. Only recently, however, has it been realised that the book is in fact the first to be written which presents an ethnography pf gesture. |