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Book SynopsisThis book draws inspiration from Maurice Merleau-Ponty''s concept of intercorporeality to offer a new, multidisciplinary perspective on the body. By drawing attention to the body''s ability to simultaneously sense and be sensed, Merleau-Ponty transcends the object-subject divide and describes how bodies are about, into, and within other bodies. Such inherent relationality constitutes the essence of intercorporeality, and the chapters in this book examine such relationality from a host of diverse perspectives. The book begins with an introductory chapter in which the editors review the current research on bodily interaction, and introduce the notion of intercorporeality as a potentially integrative framework. The first section then offers four chapters devoted to clarifying theoretical and developmental perspectives on intercorporeality. Section 2 contains three chapters that provide insight on intercorporeality from evolutionary, historical, and cross-sectional perspectives. In Section 3, four chapters examine the intercorporeal nature of meaning-making during human interaction. Section 4 then presents three chapters that explore the intercorporeal nature of multi-agent interactions and the role that non-animate bodies (i.e., objects) play in such interaction. Throughout all the chapters, the authors work to integrate research in their specific discipline into the larger, transdisciplinary notion of intercorporeality. This collection provides an indisputably unique perspective on bodies-in-interaction, while simultaneously offering an interdisciplinary way forward in contemporary scholarship on bodies, meaning, and interaction.
Trade ReviewWhile some readers will doubtless find value in individual chapters, this is that rare kind of collection that is worth reading in its entirety as it makes a cohesive argument throughout. Scholars of embodied interaction, and social interaction in general, should pay close attention to how the editors of and contributors to this volume have worked towards an integrated framework. * Dr. Donald Everhart, AMDA College of the Performing Arts, Symbolic Interaction *
Table of ContentsList of Contributors Acknowledgments Introduction Christian Meyer, Jürgen Streeck & J. Scott Jordan I. Fundamental Intercorporeality Chapter 1: Intercorporeality and Interaffectivity Thomas Fuchs Chapter 2: Intercorporeality as a Foundational Dimension of Human Communication Jens Loenhoff Chapter 3: Feeling Our Way: Enkinaesthetic Enquiry and Immanent Intercorporeality Susan A. J. Stuart Chapter 4: Haptic Sociality: The Embodied Interactive Constitution of Intimacy Through Touch Marjorie Harness Goodwin II. Extended Intercorporeality Chapter 5: Children's Expressive Handling of Objects in a Shared World Mats Andrén Chapter 6: The Cultural Organization of Intercorporeality: Interaction, Emotion, and the Senses Among the Wolof of Northwestern Senegal Christian Meyer Chapter 7: Taking the World by Hand: How (Some) Gestures Mean Elena Cuffari & Jürgen Streeck Chapter 8: Intercorporeality at the Motor Block: On the Importance of a Practical Sense for Social Cooperation and Coordination Thomas Alkemeyer, Kristina Brümmer & Thomas Pille Chapter 9: Intercorporeal Phantasms: Kinesthetic Alignment with Imagined Bodies in Self-Defense Training Anja Stukenbrock III. Intercorporeality Beyond the Body Chapter 10: Sensible Objects: Intercorporeality and Enactive Knowing Through Things Tomie Hahn & J. Scott Jordan Chapter 11: More than a Body: A Material Engagement Approach Lambros Malafouris & Maria Danae Koukouti Chapter 12: Challenges of Conducting Interaction with Technologically-Mediated Bodies Elizabeth Keating Chapter 13: Achieving Intersubjectivity in Augmented and Alternative Communication (AAC): Intercorporeal, Embodied and Disembodied Practices Peter Auer & Ina Hörmeyer Chapter 14: Wild Meaning: The Intercorporeal Nature of Objects, Bodies, and Words J. Scott Jordan & Chris Mays Index
