Self-making man : a day of action, life, and language /
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Cambridge, United Kingdom :
Cambridge University Press,
2017.
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| Series: | Learning in doing.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Half-title page; Frontispiece; Series page; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Epigraph ; Contents; Acknowledgments; About this book and the man it is about; Meeting Mr. Chmeis; A workday; A composite individual; Self-making/autopoiesis; Hi-Tech Automotive: a self-made man's life-world; Methodology ; Overview; 1 Moving; 1.1 The day begins; 1.2 Practices; 1.3 The physiognomy and sociology of walking; 1.4 Walking alone and approaching others; 1.5 Standing with others; 1.6 Dance; 1.7 Negotiations on foot; 1.8 Intercorporeality in motion; 1.9 Walking with others
- 1.10 Walking and knowing1.11 Standing apart; 1.12 Conclusion; 2 Looking; 2.1 A moment's glances; 2.2 Gaze; 2.3 Looking and seeing; 2.4 Vision-based activities; 2.5 Gaze and social action ; 2.6 Moments of mutual gaze; 2.7 The significance of mutual gaze; 2.8 Joint attention; 2.9 Referring by gaze; 2.10 Turning away; 2.11 Conclusion; 3 Pointing; 3.1 A pointed answer; 3.2 Pointing and reference; 3.3 Spotlighting; 3.4 Construal; 3.5 Intentional relations; 3.6 Self-emplacement; 3.7 Gestures of authority; 3.8 Conclusion; 4 Showing; 4.1 Showing chokes; 4.2 The antenna hand
- 4.3 Transmodal gestures and the 'logic of sensation'4.4 Sharing perception; 4.5 Decomposing; 4.6 Augmenting reality by 'action figures'; 4.7 Another kind of showing: depiction; 4.8 Preference for indexicality; 4.9 Conclusion; 5 Making Sense; 5.1 'I make sense when I talk to the people.'; 5.2 Features of gesticulation; 5.3 Habits/types; 5.4 Abstracting gestures from practical actions; 5.5 Relations between actions and gestures; 5.6 Closing hands, grasping, taking hold; 5.7 Holding; 5.8 Releasing, presenting, offering, giving; 5.9 Other gesture types; 5.10 The opacity of a gesture: slicing
- 5.11 The body's position in the world5.12 Motor cognition; 5.13 Understanding the gestures of others; 5.14 Autopoiesis by gesture; 5.15 Conclusion; 6 Speaking; 6.1 An adaptive repertoire; 6.2 Features of Hussein's 'learner grammar' of English; 6.3 Action design: routines; 6.4 Creating situation awareness; 6.5 Information design; 6.6 Poetics and autopoiesis; 6.7 Conclusion; 7 Getting Things Done; 7.1 The story of the red Capri; 7.2 Hi-Tech as a distributed cognitive system; 7.3 Hi-Tech as a cooperative transformation zone; 7.4 Hi-Tech as an organization; 7.5 Operating chain: the car as patient
- 7.6 Knowing7.7 Doing; 7.8 Getting things done: managing; 7.9 Performing; 7.10 The last act; 7.11 Conclusion; 8 Self-Making; 8.1 The anthropology of making; 8.2 Embodiment and the modalities of communication; 8.3 Autopoiesis in the auto shop; 8.4 Serious embodiment: reviving life; Autopoietic research: a note on methodology; Appendix: Activity log; Bibliography; Author Index; Subject Index