THREE-FINGER EMBLEM. HOW DID THE SERBS GESTURE CONSTRUCT THE VISUAL IMAGE OF THEIR NATIONAL IDENTITY IN 20th CENTURY 90s

Abstract

The gestural performance of the physical body vehicle shape which consequently became known as the Three-Finger Emblem presents a kind of the cultural invention in the Serbian culture in the last decade of the 20th Century. This paper deals with this phenomenon from the socio cultural anthropological viewpoint founded on the methodology of gesture studies: the issue of interest includes matters of ethnicity and identity, as well those of gesture morphology, semantics and motivation.