Embodiment and Experience by Thomas J Csordas
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.
"The authors of Embodiment and Experience broach several interesting paths for future research" William S. Lachicotte, Jr., Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
THOMAS J. CSORDAS Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, San Diego, USA. He is the author of The Sacred Self: A Cultural Phenomenology of Charismatic Healing (1994) and Body/Meaning/Healing (2002), and editor of Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self (2004) and Transnational Transcendence: Essays on Religion and Globalization (2009).
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| ISBN 13 | 9780521458900 |
| ISBN 10 | 0521458900 |
| Title | Embodiment and Experience |
| Author | Thomas J Csordas |
| Series | Cambridge Studies In Medical Anthropology |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press |
| Year published | 1994-11-17 |
| Number of pages | 308 |
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