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:

1 online resource (264 p. ) ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

Language Note:

English

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.

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.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674054387

0674054385

OCLC:

648759718