Self-Making Man reveals socially shared and personal practices, as well as improvisational actions by which a person inhabits and makes sense of the world with others. After decades of discussion on embodiment, this study is the first to investigate one body in its full range of communicative activities.
This book portrays one day in the communicative life of the owner of an auto repair-shop in Texas. He walks, looks, points, shows and explains engines, makes sense by gesture, speaks, manages, makes his life-world, and in the process reproduces social structures and himself as individual. Self-Making Man is the first comprehensive study of a communicating person; it reveals socially shared and personal practices, as well as improvisational actions by which a person inhabits and makes sense of the world with others. After decades of discussion on embodiment, this study is the first to investigate one body in its full range of communicative activities. Grounded in phenomenology and committed to the methodological rigor of context analysis and conversation analysis, Self-Making Man departs radically from contemporary research practice: it shows that, to take embodiment in human interaction seriously, we must conceive of it as individuation and organic, self-sustaining life: as autopoeisis.
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The first comprehensive study of a communicating person reveals how one inhabits and makes sense of the world with others.
| Acknowledgments |
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| About this book and the man it is about |
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| Meeting Mr. Chmeis |
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| A workday |
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| A composite individual |
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| Self-making/autopoiesis |
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| Hi-Tech Automotive: a self-made man's life-world |
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| Methodology |
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| Overview |
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1.3 The physiognomy and sociology of walking |
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1.4 Walking alone and approaching others |
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25 | (10) |
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35 | (1) |
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36 | (18) |
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1.8 Intercorporeality in motion |
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54 | (4) |
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58 | (4) |
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62 | (1) |
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63 | (4) |
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67 | (3) |
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70 | (50) |
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70 | (5) |
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75 | (3) |
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78 | (2) |
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2.4 Vision-based activities |
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80 | (7) |
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2.5 Gaze and social action |
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87 | (1) |
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2.6 Moments of mutual gaze |
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88 | (8) |
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2.7 The significance of mutual gaze |
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96 | (4) |
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100 | (2) |
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102 | (2) |
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104 | (13) |
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117 | (3) |
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120 | (45) |
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120 | (4) |
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3.2 Pointing and reference |
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124 | (10) |
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134 | (7) |
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141 | (7) |
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3.5 Intentional relations |
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148 | (4) |
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152 | (6) |
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3.7 Gestures of authority |
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158 | (4) |
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162 | (3) |
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165 | (38) |
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165 | (6) |
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171 | (5) |
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4.3 Transmodal gestures and the `logic of sensation' |
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176 | (3) |
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179 | (6) |
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185 | (3) |
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4.6 Augmenting reality by `action figures' |
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188 | (8) |
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4.7 Another kind of showing: depiction |
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196 | (3) |
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4.8 Preference for Indexicality |
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199 | (3) |
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202 | (1) |
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203 | (95) |
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5.1 `I make sense when I talk to the people.' |
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204 | (11) |
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5.2 Features of gesticulation |
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215 | (3) |
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218 | (2) |
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5.4 Abstracting gestures from practical actions |
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220 | (3) |
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5.5 Relations between actions and gestures |
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223 | (10) |
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5.6 Closing hands, grasping, taking hold |
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233 | (10) |
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243 | (4) |
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5.8 Releasing, presenting, offering, giving |
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247 | (10) |
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257 | (14) |
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5.10 The opacity of a gesture: slicing |
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271 | (5) |
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5.11 The body's position in the world |
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276 | (2) |
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278 | (6) |
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5.13 Understanding the gestures of others |
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284 | (3) |
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5.14 Autopoiesis by gesture |
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287 | (6) |
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293 | (5) |
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298 | (42) |
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6.1 An adaptive repertoire |
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298 | (2) |
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6.2 Features of Hussein's `learner grammar' of English |
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300 | (1) |
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6.3 Action design: routines |
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300 | (10) |
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6.4 Creating situation awareness |
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310 | (3) |
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313 | (5) |
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6.6 Poetics and autopoiesis |
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318 | (20) |
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338 | (2) |
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340 | (38) |
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7.1 The story of the red Capri |
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340 | (3) |
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7.2 Hi-Tech as a distributed cognitive system |
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343 | (2) |
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7.3 Hi-Tech as a cooperative transformation zone |
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345 | (3) |
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7.4 Hi-Tech as an organization |
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348 | (2) |
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7.5 Operating chain: the car as patient |
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350 | (1) |
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351 | (14) |
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365 | (7) |
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7.8 Getting things done: managing |
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372 | (1) |
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373 | (3) |
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376 | (1) |
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376 | (2) |
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378 | (11) |
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8.1 The anthropology of making |
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378 | (2) |
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8.2 Embodiment and the modalities of communication |
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380 | (4) |
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8.3 Autopoiesis in the auto shop |
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384 | (1) |
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8.4 Serious embodiment: reviving life |
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385 | (4) |
| Autopoietic research: a note on methodology |
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389 | (4) |
| Appendix: Activity log |
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393 | (28) |
| Bibliography |
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421 | (16) |
| Author Index |
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437 | (3) |
| Subject Index |
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Jürgen Streeck, Professor of Communication Studies and Anthropology at the University of Texas, Austin, is known for his ground-breaking work on gesture, embodied interaction, and the bodily foundations of meaning. Among his publications are Gesturecraft: The Manu-facture of Meaning (2009), Embodied Interaction: Language and Body in the Material World (edited with C. Goodwin and C. D. LeBaron, 2011), and Intercorporeality: Emerging Socialities in Interaction (edited with C. Meyer and J. S. Jordan, 2016). His articles have appeared in Gesture, the Journal of Pragmatics, Research on Language and Social Interaction, Annual Review of Anthropology, and the Journal of Linguistic Anthropology. He has been a Fellow at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF) at Universität Bielefeld, Germany, Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Germany, and Carl V. Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany.
