Texture and Gesture

Authors

  • Andrea de Moraes Cavalheiro University of Sao Paulo. Group of Deaf Studies and Deficiency of the Urban Anthropology Center

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2017.127316

Keywords:

Visual impairment, Corporal technicstécnicas corporais, Performance, Visual anthropology, Disability Studies

Abstract

The photographs of this essay were made between 2010 and 2012, as part of my master's research during field work at the Institute of Blind Padre Chico, un elementary school in São Paulo, specialized in students with visual disability, either with blindness or low vision. In this essay I try to capture some gestures, incomplete movements and swings, which refer to corporal techniques instituted on the body ceremonial in everyday life. In this training, where the body itself is an instrument of technique include fingers deciphering graphics in relief, hands reading braille and jumps to the sound of a rope. In my dissertation I expose how some of these techniques are connected to nomenation categories, body signals and qualitative attributes, negotiated by actors to make performative practices of visual disability.

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Author Biography

  • Andrea de Moraes Cavalheiro, University of Sao Paulo. Group of Deaf Studies and Deficiency of the Urban Anthropology Center
    PhD and Master in Social Anthropology from the University of São Paulo. Bachelor of History in the same University. He is a member of the Group of Deaf Studies and Deficiency of the Nucleus of Urban Anthropology of USP (NAU)

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Published

2017-05-29

Issue

Vol. 2 No. 1 (2017)

Section

Gesture, image and sounds

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How to Cite

Cavalheiro, Andrea de Moraes. 2017. “Texture and Gesture”. GIS - Gesture, Image and Sound - Anthropology Journal 2 (1). https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.2525-3123.gis.2017.127316.