Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self - Brossura

Csordas, Thomas

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0521458900 ISBN 13: 9780521458900

Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1995

Riassunto

Students of culture have been increasingly concerned with the ways in which cultural values are 'inscribed' on the body. These essays go beyond this passive construal of the body to a position in which embodiment is understood as the existential condition of cultural life. From this standpoint embodiment is reducible neither to representations of the body, to the body as an objectification of power, to the body as a physical entity or biological organism, nor to the body as an inalienable centre of individual consciousness. This more sensate and dynamic view is applied by the contributors to a variety of topics, including the expression of emotion, the experience of pain, ritual healing, dietary customs, and political violence. Their purpose is to contribute to a phenomenological theory of culture and self - an anthropology that is not merely about the body, but from the body.

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"The authors of Embodiment and Experience broach several interesting paths for future research." William S. Lachicotte, Jr., Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

Descrizione del libro:

A collection of essays examining the relationship between cultural values and the body as a source of symbols and instrument of experience. The contributors discuss topics including dietary customs, the expression of emotion, the experience of pain, and political violence.

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• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1995
• ISBN 10: 0521458900
• ISBN 13: 9780521458900
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 308