Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0521452562 ISBN 13 : 9780521452564

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

A collection of essays examining the relationship between cultural values and the body as a source of symbols and instrument of experience.

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Revue de presse

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

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0521452562
• ISBN 13: 9780521452564
• Reliure: Relié
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 306
• Éditeur: Csordas Thomas J.
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible