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Sensing gesture’s relationality. Review of Jürgen Streeck, Self-making Man: A Day of Action, Life and Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017

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  1. Cornelia Müller’s history of the International Society for Gesture Studies (no date) is published on the society’s website and accessible at the time of writing: http://gesturestudies.com/index.php/society/history-of-the-society/

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Harrison, S. Sensing gesture’s relationality. Review of Jürgen Streeck, Self-making Man: A Day of Action, Life and Language, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Phenom Cogn Sci (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11097-023-09932-z

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