A Gesture Life, Paperback

A translation with introduction of the first ethnographic and semiotic study of gesture in daily life.

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In April 1975, just before the fall of Saigon, the U.S. government launched "Operation Babylift, " a highly publicized plan to evacuate nearly thre...

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