The body is a site bearing multiple signs of cultural inscriptions.
People's postures, use of space, dress codes, speech
particularities, facial expressions, tone qualities, gaze, and
gestures are codes that send messages to observers. These messages
differ across cultures and times. Some of these non-verbal messages
are taken to be conscious or subconscious projection of a sense of
personal or collective identity. The various forms of "body talk"
may flag personal distinction, style, uniqueness or politics, in
which case, the body and its presentations become stances of the
self. Different from this, body talk may exhibit a society's or
culture's standardized norms of valuation with respect to what
conforms or deviates from expectations.The subject of this
anthology is non-verbal communication signals with contributing
studies from societies and cultures of Africa and African Diapora.
The goals are to document popular gestures, explore their meanings,
and understand how they frame interactions and colour
perception.The anthology is also aimed at offering
interdisciplinary perspectives on the problematics of non-verbal
communication by making sense of the various ways that different
cultures speak without "voice", and to examine how people and
groups make their presence felt as social, cultural and political
actors. Some of the contributions include case studies, descriptive
codification, theoretical analyses and performative studies. The
issues highlighted range from film and literature studies, gender
studies, history, religion, popular cultural, and extends to the
virtual space. Other studies provide a linguistic treatment of
non-verbal communication and use it as means of explicating
perception and stereotyping.
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