Embodiment and Experience : The Existential Ground of Culture and Self

Name: Embodiment and Experience
Brand: Cambridge University Press
SKU: 9780521458900
Price: 5150 KES
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ISBN: 9780521458900

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Format 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 & Existentialism Anthropology Phenomenology 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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