Agency and embodiment : performing gestures/producing culture /
Noland, Carrie,1958-
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press,
2009.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The "structuring" body: Marcel Mauss and bodily techniques -- Gestural meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the primacy of movement -- Inscription and embodiment: André Leroi-Gourhan and the body as tool -- Inscription as performance: Henri Michaux and the writing body -- The gestural performative: locating agency in the work of Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon -- Conclusion: illegible graffiti.
Human body
Gesture
Mind and body
Culture.