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

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Human body--Social aspects.
Gesture--Social aspects.
Mind and body--Social aspects.
Culture.

HM636 / N787 A 2009