TY - JOUR A1 - Seitz, Hanne T1 - An Anthropological Perspective on Technical, Phonetic and Figurative Gestures T2 - Paragrana : Internationale Zeitschrift für Historische Anthropologie N2 - The essay describes a primal scene, imagining how it might have been in the very beginning. Undoubtedly, it was a “homo ludens” who started the project of becoming human by using hand, eye, and the ability to imagine. Technical, phonetic, and figurative gestures gave way to the so-called second nature – cultural expressions that lead to technology, supported understanding, created pictures, music, theatre, or artistic legacies like the labyrinth that serves as a format for this essay. The “line of thoughts” (somewhere between fiction and reality) performs its own truth while one walks through: The text is constructed along the path of a labyrinth, the production of speech interrupted by its seven turns – allowing the experience of linear and cyclical time and creating rhythm and a motion of progression. It was written to be performed – not only to be read, but also to be seen and heard. Readers may imagine it as speech whose sound, rhythm and gestural elements inscribe themselves on the body. KW - Walking KW - Gespräch KW - Sprache KW - Phonetik KW - Zeitfaktor KW - Gestik Y1 - 2017 UR - https://opus4.kobv.de/opus4-fhpotsdam/frontdoor/index/index/docId/1709 UR - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-17095 SN - 2196-6885 VL - 23 IS - 1 SP - 156 EP - 168 PB - De Gruyter CY - Berlin ER -