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

 
9780521452564: Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 0521452562 ISBN 13 : 9780521452564
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1994

Synopsis

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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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

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
1994
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0521452562
ISBN 13 
9780521452564
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
306
Éditeur
Csordas Thomas J.
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Personne responsable
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9780521458900: Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521458900 ISBN 13 :  9780521458900
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 1995
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