1st Edition

Embodied Family Choreography Practices of Control, Care, and Mundane Creativity

By Marjorie Goodwin, Asta Cekaite Copyright 2018
312 Pages 236 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 236 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

310 Pages 236 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

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... Read more

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

Biography

Marjorie Harness Goodwin is Distinguished Professor Emita of Anthropology at the University of California Los Angeles, USA. She is the author of He Said She Said: Talk as Social Organization among Black Children and The Hidden Life of Girls: Games of Stance, Status and Exclusion.

Asta Cekaite is Professor in Child Studies at Linköping University, Sweden and co-editor of Children’s Peer Talk: Learning from each other. She is editor for Research on Children and Social Interaction.