Table of contents
Introduction
Perspectives on pantomime
Evolution, development, interaction
1
Chapter 1.
Pantomime within and beyond the evolution of language
16
Chapter 2.
The relations of demonstration and pantomime to causal reasoning and event cognition
58
Chapter 3.
Narrative and pantomime at the origin of language
78
Chapter 4.
Two types of bodily-mimetic communication
100
Chapter 5.
Can pantomime narrate?
115
Chapter 6.
The pantomimic origins of the narrative arts
139
Chapter 7.
The pantomime roots of Sao Tome and Principe Sign Language
159
Chapter 8.
Symbolic distancing in three-year-old children’s object-use pantomime
188
Chapter 9.
Gestural mimesis as “as-if” action
217
Index
