Bodylore - Couverture souple

Young, Katharine

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0870498908 ISBN 13 : 9780870498909

Editeur : University of Tennessee Press, 1995

Synopsis

With this book, a new field of inquiry is instantiated in folklore, bodylore. Coming out of work in critical theory and cultural studies, semiology and psychology, philosophy and communication, literature and psychoanalysis, anthropology and history, Bodylore investigates the bodily discourses and practices of various cultures, including our own, in order to delineate the metaphysics in terms of which we conceive and experience ourselves and others. The body is disclosed as a cultural artifact rather than a natural object, one invented and reinvented in and by its social appearances. The term bodylore was coined for the 1989 meeting of the American Folklore Society. It brings folkloristic concerns with body language, body costumes and accoutrements, body movement, discourses and representations of the body, body rituals and taboos, and beliefs about the body to a social history of embodiment.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Katherine Galloway Young received her A.B. philosophy from UC Berkeley, followed by post-graduate study in aesthetics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include several books and numerous articles.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of Tennessee Press
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0870498908
• ISBN 13: 9780870498909
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 288
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible