Agency and embodiment
Subtitle: performing gestures/producing culture
By: Carrie Noland.
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Cambridge, Mass
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780674034518
Subjects: Body, Human -- Social aspects; Gesture -- Social aspects; Mind and body -- Social aspect; Culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The 'structuring' body: Marcel Mauss and bodily techniques; title: Gestural meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the primacy of movement; title: Inscription and embodiment: André Leroi-Gourhan and the body as tool; title: Inscription as performance: Henri Michaux and the writing body; title: The gestural performative: locating agency in Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon; title: Conclusion: illegible graffiti.