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Human action signs in cultural context : the visible and the invisible in movement and dance / edited by Brenda Farnell.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Metuchen, N.J. : Scarecrow Press, 2001Copyright date: ©1995Description: vii, 309 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 0810828677
  • 9780810828674
  • 0810840332
  • 9780810840331
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4846 23
LOC classification:
  • GN231. H85 1995
Partial contents:
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.
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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.

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