Marcel Jousse (28 July 1886 – 14 August 1961) was a French

Jesuit The Society of Jesus (; abbreviation: S.J. or SJ), also known as the Jesuit Order or the Jesuits ( ; ), is a religious order (Catholic), religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rom ...

and

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. He was the founder of the Anthropology of Gesture.

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1886 births 1961 deaths Knights of the Legion of Honour 19th-century French Jesuits 20th-century French Jesuits 20th-century French anthropologists {{France-reli-bio-stub