Kinesics and Context: Essays on Body Motion Communication

Ray L. Birdwhistell

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press 1971

Kinesics and Context

Essays on Body Motion Communication

Ray L. Birdwhistell

In the series Conduct and Communication

https://doi.org/10.9783/9780812201284

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About this book

Ray L. Birdwhistell, in this study of human body motion (a study he terms kinesics), advances the theory that human communication needs and uses all the senses, that the information conveyed by human gestures and movements is coded and patterned differently in various cultures, and that these codes can be discovered by skilled scrutiny of particular movements within a social context.

Author / Editor information

Ray L. Birdwhistel, an anthropologist and expert on how people communicate with body motions, retired in 1988 from the Annenberg School for Communication at the University of Pennsylvania, where he joined the faculty in 1969. From 1942 until 1969 he taught and did research at the Universities of Toronto and Louisville, the State University of New York at Buffalo and Temple University.

Reviews

"Few brilliant pioneer workers have the opportunity that Professor Birdwhistell has had to see his unique observations validated through technical innovation. So he was able to develop kinesics, which has now become part of a systematic anthropological investigation."—Margaret Mead

"Ray Birdwhistell . . . is the first to have built a bridge between anthropology and the world of contemporary arts."—Marshall McLuhan

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Editor's Note Jones Barton Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	v
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	ix
Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
PART I. Learning to Be a Human Body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
PART II. Isolating Behavior Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	63
PART III. Approaching Behavior Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	93
PART IV. Collecting Data: Observing, Filming, and Interviewing Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	145
PART V. Research on An Interview Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	171
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(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Copyright year: 1971
Audience: College/higher education;
Pages
- Main content: 352
Keywords: Anthropology; Folklore; Linguistics

eBook

Published: November 24, 2010
ISBN: 9780812201284