Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self (Paperback)

Thomas J. Csordas

ISBN 10: 0521458900 / ISBN 13: 9780521458900

Published by Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1994

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Paperback. Students of culture have been increasingly concerned with the ways in which cultural values are inscribed on the body. The unifying theme of these essays is that the body is at once a fount of symbols and the instrument of experience. This more complex and dynamic view is applied by the contributors to a variety of topics, including dietary customs, the expression of emotion, the experience of pain, and political violence. Their purpose is to contribute to a phenomenological theory of culture and self. Students of culture have been increasingly concerned with the ways in which cultural values are inscribed on the body. The unifying theme of these essays is that the body is at once a fount of symbols and the instrument of experience. This more complex and dynamic view is applied by the contributors to a variety of topics, including dietary customs, the expression of emotion, the experience of pain, and political violence. Their purpose is to contribute to a phenomenological theory of culture and self. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self (Paperback)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press, Cambridge
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521458900
• ISBN 13: 9780521458900
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

A collection of essays examining the relationship between cultural values and the body as a source of symbols and instrument of experience.

Review

"The authors of Embodiment and Experience broach several interesting paths for future research." William S. Lachicotte, Jr., Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease