Embodiment and Experience The Existential Ground of Culture and Self

Name: Embodiment and Experience The Existential Ground of Culture and Self
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ISBN: 9780521458900

ISBN-10: 0521458900

ISBN-13: 9780521458900

Edition: 1994

Authors: Thomas J. Csordas, Alan Harwood

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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,…

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List price: $35.99
Copyright year: 1994
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 11/17/1994
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 308
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 0.946
Language: English



Introduction: the body as representation and being-in-the-world




Paradigms and Polemics



Bodies and anti-bodies: flesh and fetish in contemporary social theory




Society's body: emotion and the 'somatization' of social theory




Form, Appearance and Movement



The political economy of injury and compassion: amputees on the Thai-Cambodia border




Nurturing and negligence: working on others' bodies in




The silenced body - the expressive Leib: on the dialectic of mind and life in Chinese cathartic healing




Self, Sensibility, and Emotion



Embodied metaphors: nerves as lived experience




Bodily transactions of the passions: El Calor among Salvadoran women refugees




The embodiment of symbols and the acculturation of the anthropologist




Pain and Meaning



Chronic pain and the tension between the body as subject and object




The individual in terror




Rape trauma: contexts of meaning




Words from the Holy People: a case study in cultural phenomenology