Gestures and Comportment at the Carolingian Court : Between Practice and Perception
Résumé
Gestures can be powerful means of communicating affirmation and solidarity and, for the same reason, can be powerful means of expressing dissent. Class, gender and generational relationships are all expressed and reproduced in gestural codes; so, too, are ethnic identities. Such codes are therefore central to the process of structuration described by Giddens: ...