1 option
Agency and embodiment : performing gestures/producing culture / Carrie Noland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Noland, Carrie, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Human body--Social aspects.
- Human body.
- Gesture--Social aspects.
- Gesture.
- Mind and body--Social aspects.
- Mind and body.
- Culture.
- Physical Description:
- 264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- 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.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780674034518
- 0674034511
- OCLC:
- 304386760
The Penn Libraries is committed to describing library materials using current, accurate, and responsible language. If you discover outdated or inaccurate language, please fill out this feedback form to report it and suggest alternative language.