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Agency and embodiment : performing gestures/producing culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Noland, Carrie, 1958-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Subjects:
Human body > Social aspects.
Gesture > Social aspects.
Mind and body > Social aspects.
Culture.
Table of Contents:
  • The "structuring" body: Marcel Mauss and bodily techniques
  • Gestural meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the primacy of movement
  • Inscription and embodiment: AndrĂ© 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.