Agency and embodiment : performing gestures/producing culture / / Carrie Noland.

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Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
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Physical Description:264 p. :; ill.
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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: Andre 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.