Noland, Carrie,
Agency and embodiment : performing gestures/producing culture /
Carrie Noland.
- Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
- 264 p. : ill.
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. HKBU library
YT2025 M09
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Human body--Social aspects.
Gesture--Social aspects.
Mind and body--Social aspects.
Culture.
HM636 / N787 A 2009