Full Description
Embodied Family Choreography documents the lived and embodied practices employed to establish, maintain, and negotiate intimate social relationships in the family, examining forms of control, care, and creativity. Making use of the extensive video archives of family interaction in the US and Sweden, it presents the first investigation of how touch and interaction between bodies, in conjunction with talk, constitute a primary means of orchestrating activities through directives, thus creating rich relationships through supportive interchanges, and engaging in playful explorations of the world. Through close investigation of the sequential and simultaneous engagement of bodies interacting with other bodies, this book makes visible the important role touch plays in the context of contemporary Western middle class family life and is pioneering in its analysis of how the visual, aural, and haptic senses (usually analysed separately) mutually elaborate one another. As such, Embodied Family Choreography will appeal to scholars of child development, the sociology of the family and ethnomethodology and conversation analysis.
Contents
Introduction: Our Materials and Perspectives for the Study of Human Interaction 1. Capturing Family Interaction in Situ: Fieldwork and Theoretical Points of Departure 2. Frameworks for the Study of Human Interaction Part I: Control: Directive/Response Trajectories 3. Directive Response Sequences 4. Control Touch in Directives 5. Negotiation within Directive Trajectories 6. Metacommentary in Directive Sequences Part II: Care: Intimate Tactile Intercorporeality 7. Engagements of Care Entailing Touch 8. Constituting Relationships of Care Through Boundary Intertwinings 9. Alternative Trajectories and Attunements to Requests for a Hug 10. Intimacy in Good-Night Routines Part III: Mundane Creativity: Improvisation and Enskilment in Family Interaction 11. Improvisation and Verbal Play 12. Socializing Enskilment 13. Sibling Caretaking, Teaching, and Play 14. Conclusion
