Agency and embodiment: performing gestures/producing culture
Auteur :
Noland, Carrie
Éditeur :
Harvard University Press
ISBN :
9780674034518
Date de publication :
1 oct. 2009
Dimensions :
23,5 x 15,6 cm
Langue :
Anglais
Pays d'origine :
USA
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.