LEADER 00000nam 2200433 a 4500 001 AH23050979 003 StDuBDS 005 20140624013312.0 007 cr|||||||||||| 008 090211s2009 maua fs 001 0 eng|d 020 9780674054387|q(e-book) 040 StDuBDS|cStDuBDS|dStDuBDSZ|dUkPrAHLS 050 0 HM636|b.N65 2009 082 04 306.4|222 100 1 Noland, Carrie,|d1958- 245 10 Agency and embodiment :|bperforming gestures/producing culture /|cCarrie Noland. 260 Cambridge, Mass. ;|aLondon :|bHarvard University Press, |c2009. 300 264 p. :|bill. 505 0 * 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 506 1 Unlimited number of concurrent users.|5UkHlHU 520 8 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. 650 0 Human body|xSocial aspects. 650 0 Gesture|xSocial aspects. 650 0 Mind and body|xSocial aspects. 650 0 Culture. 856 40 |uhttps://www.vlebooks.com/vleweb/product/ openreader?id=Hull&isbn=9780674054387&uid=none|zGo to ebook 921 UL licence 936 Askews