Embodiment and Experience : The Existential Ground of Culture and Self
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Paperback / Softback
Book Series
Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology
ISBN-10
0521458900
ISBN-13
9780521458900
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Nov 17th, 1994
Print length
308 Pages
Weight
466 grams
Dimensions
15.90 x 22.90 x 1.90 cms
Product Classification:
Phenomenology & ExistentialismAnthropologyPhenomenology and Existentialism
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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.
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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