Unfinished Gestures

Unfinished Gestures
Author: Davesh Soneji
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 329
Release: 2012-01-15
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 0226768090

'Unfinished Gestures' presents the social and cultural history of courtesans in South India, focusing on their encounters with colonial modernity in the 19th and early 20th centuries.

pHealth 2020

pHealth 2020
Author: B. Blobel
Publisher: IOS Press
Total Pages: 296
Release: 2020-09-30
Genre: Medical
ISBN: 1643681133

Smart mobile systems such as microsystems, smart textiles, smart implants, and sensor-controlled medical devices, together with their related networks, have become important enablers for telemedicine and ubiquitous pervasive health to become next-generation health services. This book presents the proceedings of pHealth 2020, held as a virtual conference from 14 – 16 September 2020. This is the 17th in a series of international conferences on wearable or implantable micro and nano technologies for personalized medicine, which bring together expertise from medical, technological, political, administrative, and social domains, and cover subjects including technological and biomedical facilities, legal, ethical, social, and organizational requirements and impacts, and the research necessary to enable future-proof care paradigms. The 2020 conference also covers AI and robots in healthcare; bio-data management and analytics for personalized health; security, privacy and safety challenges; integrated care; and the intelligent management of specific diseases including the Covid-19 pandemic. Communication and cooperation with national and regional health authorities and the challenges facing health systems in developing countries were also addressed. The book includes 1 keynote, 5 invited talks, 25 oral presentations, and 8 short poster presentations from 99 international authors. All submissions were carefully and critically reviewed by at least two independent experts and at least one member of the Scientific Program Committee; a highly selective review process resulting in a full-paper rejection rate of 36%. The book will be of interest to all those involved in the design and provision of healthcare and also to patients and citizen representatives.

Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage

Anglo-Saxon Gestures and the Roman Stage
Author: Charles Reginald Dodwell
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2000
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780521661881

This 1999 book is concerned with the pictorial language of gesture revealed in Anglo-Saxon art, and its debt to classical Rome. Reginald Dodwell was an eminent art historian and former Director of the Whitworth Art Gallery in Manchester. In this, his last book, he notes a striking similarity of both form and meaning between Anglo-Saxon gestures and those in illustrated manuscripts of the plays of Terence. He presents evidence for dating the archetype of the Terence manuscripts to the mid-third century, and argues persuasively that their gestures reflect actual stage conventions. He identifies a repertory of eighteen Terentian gestures whose meaning can be ascertained from the dramatic contexts in which they occur, and conducts a detailed examination of the use of the gestures in Anglo-Saxon manuscripts. The book, which is extensively illustrated, illuminates our understanding of the vigour of late Anglo-Saxon art and its ability to absorb and transpose continental influence.

Musicking Bodies

Musicking Bodies
Author: Matthew Rahaim
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 2012-10-29
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0819573272

Indian vocalists trace intricate shapes with their hands while improvising melody. Although every vocalist has an idiosyncratic gestural style, students inherit ways of shaping melodic space from their teachers, and the motion of the hand and voice are always intimately connected. Though observers of Indian classical music have long commented on these gestures, Musicking Bodies is the first extended study of what singers actually do with their hands and voices. Matthew Rahaim draws on years of vocal training, ethnography, and close analysis to demonstrate the ways in which hand gesture is used alongside vocalization to manifest melody as dynamic, three-dimensional shapes. The gestures that are improvised alongside vocal improvisation embody a special kind of melodic knowledge passed down tacitly through lineages of teachers and students who not only sound similar, but who also engage with music kinesthetically according to similar aesthetic and ethical ideals. Musicking Bodies builds on the insights of phenomenology, Indian and Western music theory, and cultural studies to illuminate not only the performance of gesture, but its implications for the transmission of culture, the conception of melody, and the very nature of the musicking body.

A Pragmatic Approach to Fluency and Disfluency in Learner Language

A Pragmatic Approach to Fluency and Disfluency in Learner Language
Author: Maximiliane Frobenius
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing Company
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2022-11-15
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 9027256969

This monograph presents analyses of filled and unfilled pauses, cut-offs, repair, discourse markers and other phenomena often referred to as disfluencies in the context of advanced language learners' PowerPoint presentations. It adopts a multimodal perspective to demonstrate the functions of these elements in interaction. Paired with gaze shifts, pointing gestures and posture shifts, they act as facilitators of joint visual orientation, mutual understanding, and accountable actions. Therefore, this volume suggests the name cofluency to reflect their potential functionality. Cofluencies are essential elements of multimodal chunks and multimodal patterns, and these are building blocks of a multimodal turn-taking mechanism for presentations. These concepts are illustrated and discussed based on excerpts from naturally occurring classroom data.

Dancing Women

Dancing Women
Author: Usha Iyer
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 305
Release: 2020
Genre: Performing Arts
ISBN: 0190938730

A new look at Indian film dance, this book engages with the display and mobilization of the female dancing body to propose new models for theorizing film dance and music more generally. Author Usha Iyer offers a new understanding of how female dancer-actors impact narratives and the music composed for them.

Contradictory Characters

Contradictory Characters
Author: Albert Bermel
Publisher: Northwestern University Press
Total Pages: 316
Release: 1996
Genre: Drama
ISBN: 9780810114418

Providing an interpretation of the modern theatre, this is a new edition of a classic work of drama criticism.

Ralph Ellison and the Politics of the Novel

Ralph Ellison and the Politics of the Novel
Author: William Rice
Publisher: Lexington Books
Total Pages: 166
Release: 2007
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780739123232

In this engaging study, H. William Rice illuminates the mystery that is Ralph Ellison: the author of one complex, important novel who failed to complete his second; a black intellectual who remained notably reticent on political issues during the desegregation of his native South. Rice guides his reader to a greater understanding of Ralph Ellison, his oeuvre, and the American novel.