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Agency and embodiment : performing gestures/producing culture
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Agency and embodiment : performing gestures/producing culture / Carrie Noland.
ISBN
9780674034518 (alk. paper)
0674034511 (alk. paper)
Published
Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Physical Description
264 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 28, 2009
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
The "structuring" body: Marcel Mauss and bodily techniques
Gestural meaning: Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, and the primacy of movement
Inscription and embodiment: André 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.
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