Gesturecraft -- Editorial page -- Title page -- LCC data -- Dedication page -- Table of contents -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Manufactured understanding -- What this book is about -- The approach taken -- Ecologies of gesture -- Overview -- 2. Gestures as interaction -- An interactionist approach to gesture -- Gregory Bateson and the ''natural history approach'' -- Goffman's micro-studies of the interaction order -- Context analysis -- Kendon on gesture -- Conversation analysis -- Ethnography -- Praxeology -- Visual research on cultural behavior -- Gesture, gestures, culture, cultures: Some conceptual clarifications -- 3. Hands -- The structure of the human hand -- Evolution -- Grasping: Prehension and comprehension -- Repertoires of manual action -- Exploratory and practical actions -- Hands, worlds, and knowledge -- Conclusion -- 4. Gathering meaning -- The world at hand -- Gestures of orientation -- Clearing -- Tracing: Discovering and drawing lines -- Exploratory procedures -- Disassembling objects -- Making action intelligible -- The world in sight -- Contiguity -- Dwelling -- 5. The turn to the hands -- Gaze, visibility, and talk in interaction -- The speaker's look at the hands -- Utterances designed to turn attention to gestures -- The recipient's orientation to gestures -- Gaze and gesture during searches for a word -- Attentional struggle -- 6. Depiction -- Articulating gesture space -- Motion: Real and fictive -- Drawing -- Handling -- Marking and self-marking -- Mimesis: Depicting action -- The heterogeneity of representational practices -- 7. Thinking by hand -- Gestures of emotion -- Gesture as conceptualization -- Further examples of ceiving -- Models for theories -- Gesture and thought revisited -- 8. Speech-handling -- Kendon's pragmatic-gesture families -- Pragmatic gestures, turns at talk, and kinesthetic feedback.

Open hands and turn-completions -- Giving and receiving -- waiting to receive -- Mid-turn offerings -- Shrugs -- Moving things aside -- Throwing back (re-jecting) -- Negations -- The open hand before tellings -- Implicit objects -- Verbs of speaking -- Conclusion -- 9. A sustainable art -- Appendix. Data and transcript conventions -- Transcription conventions -- Bibliography -- Person index -- Subject index.