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

Author/creator Noland, Carrie, 1958-
Format Book
Publication InfoCambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Description264 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Subjects
Human body--Social aspects.
Gesture--Social aspects.
Mind and body--Social aspects.
Culture.

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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2009005476
ISBN9780674034518 (alk. paper)
ISBN0674034511 (alk. paper)

Availability

Library Location Call Number Status Item Actions
Joyner General Stacks HM636 .N65 2009 ✔ Available Place Hold