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The Senses and Society, 2021
Among the repertoires of vernacular expression available for storytelling are gestural icons, cal... more Among the repertoires of vernacular expression available for storytelling are gestural icons, called iconics, and gestural metaphors, called metaphorics in the terminology of David McNeill. Gesture analysts take such co-speech gestures as visual representations of visible phenomena but because they are body movements, all gestures impart tactile-kinesthetic qualities to expressive acts. They are thinking made perceptible outside the body and so disclose our corporeal investment in conceptualizing things. Gestures participate in a sensory ecology that interconnects visual, tactile, and kinesthetic perceptions with words in stories as well as with the worlds the stories conjure up. They are synesthetic holds on imaginary realities.
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The Oxford Handbook of the Phenomenology of Music Cultures
No thing makes a sound. All sounds are made by two things. They touch; they speak; they sing. We ... more No thing makes a sound. All sounds are made by two things. They touch; they speak; they sing. We hear that most intimate connection between two entities rubbing up against each other. It is the things talking to themselves. We eavesdrop on the world. As we listen, we attune to our surroundings, sounding out what we do not see: the insides of things, things hidden behind other things, hidden things inside our own bodies. For the ear, things are no longer stuck to their physical locations: intimations of them arrive by air, running all the way around our bodies and passing right though them. These auditory communiques animate us from within even as they animate the world without. Hearing participates with the other senses in the sensuous epistemology that grants us knowledge of our world and ourselves.
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Semiotica, 2000
How are narratives inflected with emotion? Some narrators imbue their stories with emotion effect... more How are narratives inflected with emotion? Some narrators imbue their stories with emotion effects intended to arouse a response in their recipients (Warhol 1992: 116-120).1 In those instances, we would be concerned with the rhetoric of persuasion (Burke 1974a [1945], ...
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Journal of Narrative and Life History, 1991
Take as pivotal inanthropologicaldiscourse the invention of the category of the Other. Once inven... more Take as pivotal inanthropologicaldiscourse the invention of the category of the Other. Once invented, the category conjures up another realm, a realm inhabited by the Other and estranged from the realm of the self.Ethnographicwritings are then constructed to get access to the Other. At issue, then, are how realms of experience are constellated with respect to each other, how they communicate, and how they coalesce. One name for these realm relations isdialogism. Under a dialogic description, the boundaries between self and Other become blurred, along with the boundaries between the universes of discourse they inhabit. Eth-nographic writings formulate relationships between realms in terms of conven-tions of perspective and voice. These conventions are anchored in the body. In particular, a hierarchy of modalities of perception informs a social scientific epistemology. In this article, the realm status of self and Other in anthropological discourse is investigated in three perspective...
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The Journal of American Folklore, 1994
Culture is inscribed on the body. Our beliefs about the body, our perceptions of it and the prope... more Culture is inscribed on the body. Our beliefs about the body, our perceptions of it and the properties we attribute to it, both symbolic and literal, are socially constructed. The way we hold our bodies, the way we move them and accouter them, display our membership in a culture. The body is among our cultural artifacts rather than our natural objects.
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Journal of American Folklore, 2003
... By Andrea de Jorio. Transl. and ed. by Adam Kendon. (Bloomington: Indiana Uni-versity Press, ... more ... By Andrea de Jorio. Transl. and ed. by Adam Kendon. (Bloomington: Indiana Uni-versity Press, 2000. Pp. cvii + 517, preface, editor's introduction, 17 illustrations, 21 plates, 5 indices, 3 appendices, notes.) Katharine Young Independent Scholar ...
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Journal of Folklore Research, 2014
Culture apprentices the body to its style. Gestures are the visible and kinaesthetic trace of tha... more Culture apprentices the body to its style. Gestures are the visible and kinaesthetic trace of that apprenticeship. They are specific to bodies, families, age grades, ethnic groups, social orders, and historical moments. They are folklore. The gestures I consider here are affiliated with talk. They conjure up in the gesture space in front of the body the iconic and metaphoric objects that talk mentions. In a gesture, Maurice Merleau-Ponty writes, “the intentional object is offered to the spectator at the same time as the gesture itself” ([1962] 1995:186). The gesturer’s intentionality colonizes the spectator’s, making it intersubjective: phenomenology’s foundational perspective.
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Journal of American Folklore, 2011
ABSTRACT Culture apprentices the body to its style. Gestures are the visible and kinaesthetic tra... more ABSTRACT Culture apprentices the body to its style. Gestures are the visible and kinaesthetic trace of that apprenticeship. They are specific to bodies, families, age grades, ethnic groups, social orders, and historical moments. They are folklore. The gestures I consider here are affiliated with talk. They conjure up in the gesture space in front of the body the iconic and metaphoric objects that talk mentions. In a gesture, Maurice Merleau-Ponty writes, "the intentional object is offered to the spectator at the same time as the gesture itself" ([1962] 1995:186). The gesturer's intentionality colonizes the spectator's, making it intersubjective: phenomenology's foundational perspective.
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Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library, 1987
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Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library, 1987
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Martinus Nijhoff Philosophy Library, 1987
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Western Folklore, 1985
In an ongoing argument, skeptical contextualists have challenged the primacy of texts and skeptic... more In an ongoing argument, skeptical contextualists have challenged the primacy of texts and skeptical formalists the propriety of context. The argument has been canonized in folklore as the text/context controversy, and so instantiated in its traditions of analysis that folklorists now fall into one ...
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