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Author Noland, Carrie, 1958-
Title Agency and embodiment : performing gestures/producing culture / Carrie Noland.
Publication Info Cambridge, Mass. ; London : Harvard University Press, 2009.


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Descript 264 p. : ill.
Contents * Introduction * The 'Structuring' Body: Marcel Mauss and Bodily Techniques * Gestural Meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and The Primacy of Movement * Inscription and Embodiment: Andre Leroi-Gourhan and the Body as Tool * Inscription as Performance: Henri Michaux and the Writing Body * The Gestural Performative: Locating Agency in Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon * Conclusion: Illegible Graffiti * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index
Note In this work, Carrie Noland examines the ways in which culture is both embodied and challenged through the corporeal performance of gestures. Arguing against the constructivist metaphor of bodily inscription dominant since Foucault, Noland maintains that kinaesthetic experience places pressure on the conditioning a body receives.
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Author Noland, Carrie, 1958-
Subject Human body -- Social aspects.
Gesture -- Social aspects.
Mind and body -- Social aspects.
Culture.
Descript 264 p. : ill.
Contents * Introduction * The 'Structuring' Body: Marcel Mauss and Bodily Techniques * Gestural Meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and The Primacy of Movement * Inscription and Embodiment: Andre Leroi-Gourhan and the Body as Tool * Inscription as Performance: Henri Michaux and the Writing Body * The Gestural Performative: Locating Agency in Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon * Conclusion: Illegible Graffiti * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index
Note In this work, Carrie Noland examines the ways in which culture is both embodied and challenged through the corporeal performance of gestures. Arguing against the constructivist metaphor of bodily inscription dominant since Foucault, Noland maintains that kinaesthetic experience places pressure on the conditioning a body receives.
Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780674054387 (e-book)
Author Noland, Carrie, 1958-
Subject Human body -- Social aspects.
Gesture -- Social aspects.
Mind and body -- Social aspects.
Culture.

Subject Human body -- Social aspects.
Gesture -- Social aspects.
Mind and body -- Social aspects.
Culture.
Descript 264 p. : ill.
Contents * Introduction * The 'Structuring' Body: Marcel Mauss and Bodily Techniques * Gestural Meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and The Primacy of Movement * Inscription and Embodiment: Andre Leroi-Gourhan and the Body as Tool * Inscription as Performance: Henri Michaux and the Writing Body * The Gestural Performative: Locating Agency in Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon * Conclusion: Illegible Graffiti * Notes * Acknowledgments * Index
Note In this work, Carrie Noland examines the ways in which culture is both embodied and challenged through the corporeal performance of gestures. Arguing against the constructivist metaphor of bodily inscription dominant since Foucault, Noland maintains that kinaesthetic experience places pressure on the conditioning a body receives.
Unlimited number of concurrent users. UkHlHU
ISBN 9780674054387 (e-book)
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