Agency and embodiment performing gestures/producing culture - Noland, Carrie (Harvard University Press, 2009)
Includes bibliographical references and index
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
Keywords: SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural; POLITICAL SCIENCE / Public Policy / Cultural Policy; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture; Körper; Gestik; Anthropologie; Kultur; Gesellschaft; Human body -- Social aspects; Gesture -- Social aspects; Mind and body -- Social aspects; Culture; Ethnologie