Gesturecraft

• 1. Acknowledgments; 2. 1. Manufactured understanding; 3. 2. Gesture as interaction: On methodology; 4. 3. Hands; 5. 4. Gathering meaning; 6. 5. The turn to the hands; 7. 6. Depicting; 8. 7. Thinking by hand; 9. 8. Speech-handling; 10. 9. A sustainable art; 11. Appendix; 12. Bibliography; 13. Person index; 14. Subject index; 15. Video clips

Gesturecraft is a rich and thought-provoking book, always elegantly and eruditely written, whose main argument — that the body and especially the hands are central, shared parts in human technologies of knowledge; and that as a result of their semiotic virtues and visibility, they can become primary and, indeed, insistent visible articulators of that knowledge — I have found equally useful for understanding the role of the hands in wider human processes of utterance, and their special power in the realization of human communicative potential.