Intercorporeality

Christian Meyer Professor and Chair of General Sociology and Cultural Sociology in the Department of History and Sociology at the University of Constance, Germany. Jürgen Streeck is professor of communication studies, anthropology, and Germanic Studies at the University of Texas at Austin.Scott J. Jordan is Professor and Chair in the Department of Psychology at Illinois State University.

• List 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

While 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.