Streeck2020
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| BibType | ARTICLE |
| Key | Streeck2020 |
| Author(s) | Jürgen Streeck |
| Title | Self-Touch as Sociality |
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| Tag(s) | EMCA, Interaction, Touch, Self-touch, Sociality, Intercorporeality |
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| Year | 2020 |
| Language | English |
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| Journal | Social Interaction: Video-Based Studies of Human Sociality |
| Volume | 3 |
| Number | 2 |
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| URL | Link |
| DOI | 10.7146/si.v3i2.120854 |
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Abstract
Self-touch is often understood as a form of interactional disengagement and withdrawal, of self-involvement, and co-participants are said to disattend ‘self-grooming’ actions. In this paper, I present interactional sequences during which the parties touch themselves at the same time, or in succession. These data thus suggest that self-touch can also be an engagement display. Approaching self-touch from the ‘point of view’ of idle hands in need of something to do, and of interaction as in need of ongoing mutual coordination, I present cooperative self-touch as a display of the deeply social nature of the human body.
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