Agency and Embodiment - Performing Gestures/producing Culture

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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.

Product details

• Authors: Carrie Noland, Noland Carrie
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.10.2009
• EAN: 9780674034518
• ISBN: 978-0-674-03451-8
• No. of pages: 272
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Dance, Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Popular Culture, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, PERFORMING ARTS / Dance / General, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / Stagecraft & Scenography, Theatre Studies, Social and cultural anthropology, Sociology & anthropology