Agency and Embodiment : : Performing Gestures/Producing Culture / / Carrie Noland.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter HUP eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 (Canada)
• VerfasserIn: Noland, Carrie,
• Place / Publishing House: Cambridge, MA : : Harvard University Press, , [2010]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2010
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (272 p.)
• Other title: 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780674054387; 9783110756067; 9783110442205
• DOI: 10.4159/9780674054387
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Carrie Noland.

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.