Migrations of Gesture by Carrie Noland,Sally Ann Ness
By Carrie Noland,Sally Ann Ness
Derived from the Latin verb “gerere”-to hold, act, or do-“gesture” has gathered serious forex yet has remained undertheorized. Migrations of Gesture addresses this absence and offers a fancy idea at the worth of gesture for figuring out human signal production.
Gestures migrate from physique to physique, from one medium to a different, and among cultural contexts. Juxtaposing distinctive methods to gesture in an effort to discover the ways that they right away form and are motivated through tradition, the individuals study the works of writers Henri Michaux and Stéphane Mallarmé, photographers Henri Cartier-Bresson and Robert Frank, and filmmakers Hou Hsiao-Hsien and Martin Arnold, in addition to cultural practices akin to gang jogging, ballet, and classical Indian dance. The authors circulation deftly among an natural, extra special appreciation of human expression and a historicist, semiotic figuring out of the way the “human” is itself created via gestural routines.
Contributors: Mark Franko, U of California, Santa Cruz; Ketu H. Katrak, U of California, Irvine; Akira Mizuta Lippit, U of Southern California; Susan A. Phillips, Pitzer collage; Deidre Sklar; Lesley Stern, U of California, San Diego; Blake Stimson, U of California, Davis.
Carrie Noland is affiliate professor of French literature and important concept on the college of California, Irvine.
Sally Ann Ness is professor of anthropology at collage of California, Riverside.
Read or Download Migrations of Gesture PDF
Best dance books
Contemporary Dance in Cuba: Técnica Cubana as Revolutionary Movement
The lens of dance offers a multifaceted view of the present-day Cuban event. Cuban modern dance, or técnica cubana because it is understood all through Latin the US, is a hugely developed hybrid of ballet, North American sleek dance, Afro-Cuban culture, flamenco and Cuban nightclub cabaret. in contrast to such a lot dance varieties, técnica was once created deliberately with executive backing.
From Christopher Columbus to “first anthropologist” Friar Bernardino de Sahagún, 15th- and sixteenth-century explorers, conquistadors, clerics, scientists, and tourists wrote concerning the “Indian” dances they encountered during the New international. This was once very true of Spanish missionaries who intensively studied and documented local dances in an try to determine and eliminate the “idolatrous” behaviors of the Aztec, the biggest indigenous empire in Mesoamerica on the time of its ecu discovery.
Danses et concepts en Océanie (Portes océanes) (French Edition)
L. a. danse demeure encore l'une des productions culturelles les plus fortes dans le Pacifique. Loin d'être de simples manifestations folkloriques, les danses océaniennes ont diverses fonctions. Des exemples pris au répertoire kanak pour l. a. Nouvelle-Calédonie, tongien et hawaïen pour l. a. Polynésie, ont été choisis pour illustrer l. a. complexité de ces chorégraphies.
Talking Dance: Contemporary Histories from the South China Sea
The South China Sea has a wealthy and turbulent background. this present day territorial disputes within the area - together with China, Taiwan, Vietnam, Philippines and Indonesia - make it in all probability essentially the most harmful issues of clash in Asia and hundreds of thousands of individuals have crossed its waters looking for more secure shorelines.
Additional info for Migrations of Gesture
Example text
