@article{Seitz, author = {Seitz, Hanne}, title = {An Anthropological Perspective on Technical, Phonetic and Figurative Gestures}, series = {Paragrana : Internationale Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Historische Anthropologie}, volume = {23}, journal = {Paragrana : Internationale Zeitschrift f{\"u}r Historische Anthropologie}, number = {1}, publisher = {De Gruyter}, address = {Berlin}, issn = {2196-6885}, doi = {10.1515/para-2014-0014}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:525-17095}, pages = {156 -- 168}, abstract = {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.}, subject = {Walking}, language = {en} }