GESZTUSNARRATÍVÁK ÉS AZ EMLÉKEZET
Memory and narratives of gestures

Author(s): Ildikó Ungvári Zrínyi
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Communication studies
Published by: Scientia Kiadó
Keywords: memory; narratives of gestures;cultural memory;self
Summary/Abstract: Our world of gestures is also an involuntary institution of memory, which has an important role in maintaining the cultural memory. Questioning its meaning and laws or even wondering at it leads directly to the question how can a gesture become part of a narrative and in which way can it obtain a narrative function. Gestures are built in our everyday communication processes in alternation with the verbal language or illustrating it in a more or less parallel way. In the technical era, the proportion of certain gesture manifestations is growing, while the fragmented public sphere allows more and more the changes of points of views, which results a larger sphere of interpretation. Although cultural memory tends to express itself in the forms of written culture, it can be expressed with some types of gestures that are used even in today’s organized memory. Even the narrated identity of the Self can be expressed by a gesture that fits into his/her dense narrative expressed by gestures and/or by various other (verbal, objectual, spatial) components. This is a narrative or set of narratives that is allowed by the Self to be used in the public sphere.

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