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Agency and embodiment performing gestures/producing culture /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author:	Noland, Carrie, 1958-
Corporate Author:	ebrary, Inc
Format:	Electronic eBook
Language:	English
Published:	Cambridge, Mass. : Harvard University Press, 2009.
Subjects:	Human body > Social aspects. Gesture > Social aspects. Mind and body > Social aspects. Culture. Electronic books.
Online Access:	An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view
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Table of Contents:

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.