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.

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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.

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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.

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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