Agency and embodiment :: performing gestures/producing culture /

In Agency and Embodiment, Carrie Noland examines the ways in which culture is both embodied and challenged through the corporeal performance of gestures. Arguing against the constructivist metaphor of bodily inscription dominant since Foucault, Noland maintains that kinesthetic experience, produced...

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Main Author: Noland, Carrie, 1958- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2009.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary:In Agency and Embodiment, Carrie Noland examines the ways in which culture is both embodied and challenged through the corporeal performance of gestures. Arguing against the constructivist metaphor of bodily inscription dominant since Foucault, Noland maintains that kinesthetic experience, produced by acts of embodied gesturing, places pressure on the conditioning a body receives, encouraging variations in cultural practice that cannot otherwise be explained.
Physical Description:1 online resource (264 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9780674054387
0674054385

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