Reveals myth and otherness as keys to restoring self, nature, and society. Shows how myths contain medicine to restore wholeness amidst trauma, exile, sudden life change, disability, illness, death, or grief. Synthesizes lessons from shamanic prac...Lasīt vairāk
The bestselling author of Why We Swim presents a mind-expanding exploration of muscle??from our ancient obsession with the ideal human form to the modern science of this amazing and adaptable tissue??that will change how you think about what moves...Lasīt vairāk
How to Make the Body: Difference, Identity, and Embodiment brings together contemporary and historical readings of the body, exploring the insights and limits of established and emerging theories of difference, identity, and embodiment in a va...Lasīt vairāk
The practice of body suspension piercing ones own flesh with metal hooks and hanging from them and its uniquely sprawling community challenge our cultural understanding of pain. The suspendees experience physical suffering to trigger altered...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Aug-2023, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Stanford University Press, ISBN-13: 9781503630383)
A groundbreaking and profoundly moving exploration of the Armenian genocide, told through the traces left in the memories and on the bodies of its women survivors. Foremost among the images of the Armenian Genocide is the specter of tattooed Islamiz...Lasīt vairāk
A groundbreaking and profoundly moving exploration of the Armenian genocide, told through the traces left in the memories and on the bodies of its women survivors.Foremost among the images of the Armenian Genocide is the specter of t...Lasīt vairāk
Reveals myth and otherness as keys to restoring self, nature, and society. Shows how myths contain medicine to restore wholeness amidst trauma, exile, sudden life change, disability, illness, death, or grief. Synthesizes lessons from shamanic prac...Lasīt vairāk
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How to Make the Body: Difference, Identity, and Embodiment brings together contemporary and historical readings of the body, exploring the insights and limits of established and emerging theories of difference, identity, and embodiment in a va...Lasīt vairāk
Celebrate the magic of your body and tap into the wisdom of your subconscious with this lavish anatomical-themed 72-card tarot deck and guidebook.Your body is a universe in microcosm. Great galaxies of microbes and shooting stars of ne...Lasīt vairāk
The book investigates, from different methodological viewpoints, the multiple ways in which medieval rulers in different areas of the Mediterranean constructed their outward appearance and communicated it by means of a variety of rituals, object-type...Lasīt vairāk
This book examines a type of object that was widespread and very popular in classical antiquity - votive offerings in the shape of parts of the human body. It collects examples from four principal areas and time periods: Classical Greece, pre-Roman I...Lasīt vairāk
Investigates regional roles of body parts in mortuary rituals and as relics, empasising the central role of the corpse in the negotiation of human death. The human body represents the perfect element for relating communities of the living wit...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a wide-ranging examination of acts of virtual embodiment in performance/gaming/applied contexts that abstract an immersants sense of physical selfhood by instating a virtual body, body-part or computer-generated avatar. Emerg...Lasīt vairāk
A multifaceted essay on the importance of the body in Western thought. This book includes aesthetic, political, philosophical, social and scientific aspects that contribute to promoting the image of the body and of the post-human as a constellat...Lasīt vairāk
The body and experiences of embodiment have generated a rich and diverse sociological literature. This volume articulates and illustrates one major approach to the sociology of the body: symbolic interactionism, an increasingly prevalent theoretical...Lasīt vairāk
This book offers a wide-ranging examination of acts of virtual embodiment in performance/gaming/applied contexts that abstract an immersants sense of physical selfhood by instating a virtual body, body-part or computer-generated avatar. Emerg...Lasīt vairāk
This collection of essays explores the ways that medieval and pre-modern literature, theology, and art utilised representations of the human body and its fluids both to signify and to explain change. For medieval and early modern thinkers, th...Lasīt vairāk
This collection of essays considers artistic works that deal with the body without a visual representation. It explores a range of ways to represent this absence of the figure: from abject elements such as bodily fluids and waste to surrogate form...Lasīt vairāk
(Izdošanas datums: 30-Apr-2019, Hardback, Izdevniecība: Louisiana State University Press, ISBN-13: 9780807170373)
In The Scars We Carve: Bodies and Wounds in Civil War Print Culture, Allison M. Johnson considers the ubiquitous images of bodieswhite and black, male and female, soldier and civilianthat appear throughout newspapers, lithographs, poems,...Lasīt vairāk
This collection of new essays explores the many ways in which writing relates to corporeality and how the two work together to create, resist or mark the body of the Other. Contributors draw on their varied backgrounds to examine different movement...Lasīt vairāk
Jewish Bodylore explores the symbology of the Jewish body. It considers how Jewish bodies can be conceptualized using folkloristics and how feminist methodologies of the body can be applied fairly to Jewish bodies, celebrating the multitude of ways...Lasīt vairāk
