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Author Noland, Carrie, 1958-

Title Agency and embodiment [electronic resource] : performing gestures/producing culture / Carrie Noland.

Imprint Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.

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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 264 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Human body -- Social aspects.
Gesture -- Social aspects.
Mind and body -- Social aspects.
Culture.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780674034518 (alk. paper)
0674034511 (alk. paper)

 
    
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