Human action signs in cultural context : the visible and the invisible in movement and dance /
Human action signs in cultural context : the visible and the invisible in movement and dance /
edited by Brenda Farnell.
- vii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Drid Williams -- Ch. 1. Visible and Invisible in Hawaiian Dance / Adrienne L. Kaeppler --Ch. 2. Space, Intersubjectivity and the Conceptual Imperative: Three Ethnographic Cases / Drid Williams --Ch. 3. Where Mind Is a Verb: Spatial Orientation and Deixis in Plains Indian Sign Talk and Assiniboine (Nakota) Culture / Brenda Farnell -- Ch. 4. Sociality, Social Interaction, and Sign Language in Aboriginal Australia / Adam Kendon -- Ch. 5. Where Words Harm and Blows Heal / Gaynor M. Macdonald -- Ch. 6. Social Commentary in African-American Movement Performance /LeeEllen Friedland -- Ch. 7. Thinking with Movement: Improvising versus Composing? / Rajika Puri and Diana Hart-Johnson -- Ch. 8. The Indexical Structure of Visibility / Bonnie Urciuoli -- Ch. 9. Cartesianism Revisited: The Ghost in the Moving Machine or the Lived Body / Charles Varela.
0810828677 9780810828674 0810840332 9780810840331
94005537
Human beings--Attitude and movement
Human locomotion
Body language
Dance--Social aspects
Human body--Social aspects
Human body--Symbolic aspects
GN231. / H85 1995
306.4846
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Foreword / Drid Williams -- Ch. 1. Visible and Invisible in Hawaiian Dance / Adrienne L. Kaeppler --Ch. 2. Space, Intersubjectivity and the Conceptual Imperative: Three Ethnographic Cases / Drid Williams --Ch. 3. Where Mind Is a Verb: Spatial Orientation and Deixis in Plains Indian Sign Talk and Assiniboine (Nakota) Culture / Brenda Farnell -- Ch. 4. Sociality, Social Interaction, and Sign Language in Aboriginal Australia / Adam Kendon -- Ch. 5. Where Words Harm and Blows Heal / Gaynor M. Macdonald -- Ch. 6. Social Commentary in African-American Movement Performance /LeeEllen Friedland -- Ch. 7. Thinking with Movement: Improvising versus Composing? / Rajika Puri and Diana Hart-Johnson -- Ch. 8. The Indexical Structure of Visibility / Bonnie Urciuoli -- Ch. 9. Cartesianism Revisited: The Ghost in the Moving Machine or the Lived Body / Charles Varela.
0810828677 9780810828674 0810840332 9780810840331
94005537
Human beings--Attitude and movement
Human locomotion
Body language
Dance--Social aspects
Human body--Social aspects
Human body--Symbolic aspects
GN231. / H85 1995
306.4846