Table of contents

Chapters in this book

1. Prelim pages i
2. Table of contents v
3. Introduction. Perspectives on pantomime 1
4. Chapter 1. Pantomime within and beyond the evolution of language 16
5. Chapter 2. The relations of demonstration and pantomime to causal reasoning and event cognition 58
6. Chapter 3. Narrative and pantomime at the origin of language 78
7. Chapter 4. Two types of bodily-mimetic communication 100
8. Chapter 5. Can pantomime narrate? 115
9. Chapter 6. The pantomimic origins of the narrative arts 139
10. Chapter 7. The pantomime roots of Sao Tome and Principe Sign Language 159
11. Chapter 8. Symbolic distancing in three-year-old children’s object-use pantomime 188
12. Chapter 9. Gestural mimesis as “as-if” action 217
13. Index 243