Yolanda Covington-Ward

List of John Benjamins publications for which Yolanda Covington-Ward plays a role.

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Covington-Ward, Yolanda 2019 Temporality, social interaction, and power in an anthropology of gesture: Cases from the pre-colonial Kongo Kingdom Anthropology of Gesture, Brookes, Heather and Olivier Le Guen (eds.), pp. 261–280 | Article
Current anthropological studies of gesture give extensive attention to communities of study from a synchronic perspective while also focusing on semantic, cognitive, and linguistic analyses of gesture. However, less well explored is how the uses and meanings of gestures can change over time… read more