Agency and Embodiment : Performing Gestures/Producing Culture / Carrie Noland.
Noland, Carrie, author.
2010
HM636 .N65 2009eb
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Title Agency and Embodiment : Performing Gestures/Producing Culture / Carrie Noland.
Author Noland, Carrie, author.
ISBN 9780674054387
DOI https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674054387
Published Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2010]
Copyright ©2009
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (272 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.4159/9780674054387 doi
Call Number HM636 .N65 2009eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 306.4
Summary In Agency and Embodiment, 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 kinesthetic experience, produced by acts of embodied gesturing, places pressure on the conditioning a body receives, encouraging variations in cultural practice that cannot otherwise be explained.
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Frontmatter
Contents
Introduction
Chapter One. The "Structuring" Body: Marcel Mauss and Bodily Techniques
Chapter Two. Gestural Meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the Primacy of Movement
Chapter Three. Inscription and Embodiment: André Leroi-Gourhan and the Body as Tool
Chapter Four. Inscription as Performance: Henri Michaux and the Writing Body
Chapter Five. The Gestural Performative: Locating Agency in the Work of Judith Butler and Frantz Fanon
Conclusion: Illegible Graffiti
Notes
Acknowledgments
Index

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