“I Showed Him an Open Hand, He Showed me a Fist”
This essay offers a multimodal performance analysis of a widely documented international folktale. The emergent unfolding of the tale plot, which turns on constrasting interpretations of a series of thematized gestures, illuminates the dynamic tension between iconicity and ostension in performance....
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Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
2024-04-01
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| Series: | Semiotic Review |
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| Online Access: | https://semioticreview.com/sr/index.php/srindex/article/view/73 |
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