Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self

Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, (2003). reprint. orig.wrappers. 23x15cm, xi,294 pp. PAPERBACK. Series: Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology, 2.. Minor rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents : t Bodies and anti-bodies / Terence Turner -- Society’s body / M.L. Lyon and J.M. Barbalet -- The political economy of injury and compassion / Lindsay French -- Nurturing and negligence / Anne E. Becker --The silenced body, the expressive Leib / Thomas Ots -- Embodied metaphors / Setha M. Low -- Bodily transactions of the passions / Janis H. Jenkins and Martha Valiente -- The embodiment of symbols and the acculturation of the anthropologist / Carol Laderman -- Chronic pain and the tension between the body as subject and object / Jean Jackson -- The individual in terror / E. Valentine Daniel -- Rape trauma / Cathy Winkler (with Kate Wininger) -- Words from the Holy People / 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

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