Bodies Of Memory
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Bodies Of Memory
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Author : Yoshikuni Igarashi
language : en
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Release Date : 2000-07-30
Bodies Of Memory written by Yoshikuni Igarashi and has been published by Princeton University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000-07-30 with History categories.
Japan and the United States became close political allies so quickly after the end of World War II, that it seemed as though the two countries had easily forgotten the war they had fought. Here Yoshikuni Igarashi offers a provocative look at how Japanese postwar society struggled to understand its war loss and the resulting national trauma, even as forces within the society sought to suppress these memories. Igarashi argues that Japan's nationhood survived the war's destruction in part through a popular culture that expressed memories of loss and devastation more readily than political discourse ever could. He shows how the desire to represent the past motivated Japan's cultural productions in the first twenty-five years of the postwar period. Japanese war experiences were often described through narrative devices that downplayed the war's disruptive effects on Japan's history. Rather than treat these narratives as obstacles to historical inquiry, Igarashi reads them along with counter-narratives that attempted to register the original impact of the war. He traces the tensions between remembering and forgetting by focusing on the body as the central site for Japan's production of the past. This approach leads to fascinating discussions of such diverse topics as the use of the atomic bomb, hygiene policies under the U.S. occupation, the monstrous body of Godzilla, the first Western professional wrestling matches in Japan, the transformation of Tokyo and the athletic body for the 1964 Tokyo Olympics, and the writer Yukio Mishima's dramatic suicide, while providing a fresh critical perspective on the war legacy of Japan.
Body Memory Metaphor And Movement
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Author : Sabine C. Koch
language : en
Publisher: John Benjamins Publishing
Release Date : 2012-01-25
Body Memory Metaphor And Movement written by Sabine C. Koch and has been published by John Benjamins Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-01-25 with Psychology categories.
Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement is an interdisciplinary volume with contributions from philosophers, cognitive scientists, and movement therapists. Part one provides the phenomenologically grounded definition of body memory with its different typologies. Part two follows the aim to integrate phenomenology, conceptual metaphor theory, and embodiment approaches from the cognitive sciences for the development of appropriate empirical methods to address body memory. Part three inquires into the forms and effects of therapeutic work with body memory, based on the integration of theory, empirical findings, and clinical applications. It focuses on trauma treatment and the healing power of movement. The book also contributes to metaphor theory, application and research, and therefore addresses metaphor researchers and linguists interested in the embodied grounds of metaphor. Thus, it is of particular interest for researchers from the cognitive sciences, social sciences, and humanities as well as clinical practitioners.
Bodies Of Evidence
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Author : Paul Sant Cassia
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2005
Bodies Of Evidence written by Paul Sant Cassia and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with History categories.
Over 2,000 people went missing in Cyprus between 1963 & 1974. This work examines how both communities face the need to mourn without a body, nor even any certain knowledge of what has happened to their loved ones.
The Memory Of Bones
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Author : Stephen D. Houston
language : en
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Release Date : 2013-05-01
The Memory Of Bones written by Stephen D. Houston and has been published by University of Texas Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-05-01 with Social Science categories.
An analysis of the intellectual and emotional life of ancient Mesoamerican people through studies of figural works and inscriptions. All of human experience flows from bodies that feel, express emotion, and think about what such experiences mean. But is it possible for us, embodied as we are in a particular time and place, to know how people of long ago thought about the body and its experiences? In this groundbreaking book, three leading experts on the Classic Maya (ca. AD 250 to 850) marshal a vast array of evidence from Maya iconography and hieroglyphic writing, as well as archaeological findings, to argue that the Classic Maya developed an approach to the human body that we can recover and understand today. Starting with a cartography of the Maya body as depicted in imagery and texts, the authors explore how the body was replicated in portraiture; how it experienced the world through ingestion, the senses, and the emotions; how the body experienced war and sacrifice and the pain and sexuality; how words, often heaven-sent, could be embodied; and how bodies could be blurred through spirit possession. From these investigations, the authors convincingly demonstrate that the Maya conceptualized the body in varying roles, as a metaphor of time, as a gendered, sexualized being, in distinct stages of life, as an instrument of honor and dishonor, as a vehicle for communication and consumption, as an exemplification of beauty and ugliness, and as a dancer and song-maker. Their findings open a new avenue for empathetically understanding the ancient Maya as living human beings who experienced the world as we do, through the body.
Body Memory And Architecture
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Author : Kent C. Bloomer
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 1977-01-01
Body Memory And Architecture written by Kent C. Bloomer and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1977-01-01 with Photography categories.
Traces the significance of the human body in architecture from its early place as the divine organizing principle to its present near elimination
Where The Body Meets Memory
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Author : David Mura
language : en
Publisher: Anchor
Release Date : 2010-09-29
Where The Body Meets Memory written by David Mura and has been published by Anchor this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-09-29 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
In Turning Japanese, poet David Mura chronicled a year in Japan in which his sense of identity as a Japanese American was transformed. In Where the Body Meets Memory, Mura focuses on his experience growing up Japanese American in a country which interned both his parents during World War II, simply because of their race. Interweaving his own experience with that of his family and of other sansei-third generation Japanese Americans-Mura reveals how being a "model minority" has resulted in a loss of heritage and wholeness for generations of Japanese Americans. In vivid and searingly honest prose, Mura goes on to suggest how the shame of internment affected his sense of sexuality, leading him to face troubling questions about desire and race: an interracial marriage, compulsive adultery, and an addiction to pornography which equates beauty with whiteness. Using his own experience as a measure of racial and sexual grief, Mura illustrates how the connections between race and desire are rarely discussed, how certain taboos continue to haunt this country's understanding of itself. Ultimately, Mura faces the most difficult legacy of miscegenation: raising children in a world which refuses to recognize and honor its racial diversity. Intimate and lyrically stunning, Where the Body Meets Memory is a personal journey out of the self and into America's racial and sexual psyche.
The Spirit Of Mourning
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Author : Paul Connerton
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2011
The Spirit Of Mourning written by Paul Connerton and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS categories.
"How is the memory of traumatic events, such as genocide and torture, inscribed within human bodies? In this book, Paul Connerton discusses social and cultural memory by looking at the role of mourning in the production of histories and the reticence of silence across many different cultures. In particular he looks at how memory is conveyed in gesture, bodily posture, speech and the senses -- and how bodily memory, in turn, becomes manifested in cultural objects such as tattoos, letters, buildings and public spaces. It is argued that memory is more cultural and collective than it is individual. This book will appeal to researchers and students in anthropology, linguistic anthropology, sociology, social psychology and philosophy."--Page [i].
Trauma And Memory
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Author : Peter A. Levine, Ph.D.
language : en
Publisher: North Atlantic Books
Release Date : 2015-10-27
Trauma And Memory written by Peter A. Levine, Ph.D. and has been published by North Atlantic Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-10-27 with Psychology categories.
In Trauma and Memory, bestselling author Dr. Peter Levine (creator of the Somatic Experiencing approach) tackles one of the most difficult and controversial questions of PTSD/trauma therapy: Can we trust our memories? While some argue that traumatic memories are unreliable and not useful, others insist that we absolutely must rely on memory to make sense of past experience. Building on his 45 years of successful treatment of trauma and utilizing case studies from his own practice, Dr. Levine suggests that there are elements of truth in both camps. While acknowledging that memory can be trusted, he argues that the only truly useful memories are those that might initially seem to be the least reliable: memories stored in the body and not necessarily accessible by our conscious mind. While much work has been done in the field of trauma studies to address "explicit" traumatic memories in the brain (such as intrusive thoughts or flashbacks), much less attention has been paid to how the body itself stores "implicit" memory, and how much of what we think of as "memory" actually comes to us through our (often unconsciously accessed) felt sense. By learning how to better understand this complex interplay of past and present, brain and body, we can adjust our relationship to past trauma and move into a more balanced, relaxed state of being. Written for trauma sufferers as well as mental health care practitioners, Trauma and Memory is a groundbreaking look at how memory is constructed and how influential memories are on our present state of being.
Freedom From Body Memory
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Author : Body Memory Recall
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2009-10-28
Freedom From Body Memory written by Body Memory Recall and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-28 with categories.
The innate ability to suppress stressful experiences has become more than a mechanism to survive, it has become an unconscious habit. As a result a person can accumulate years, even a lifetime of stressful memories in their body a phenomenon known as body memory. In Freedom From Body Memory we join Jonathan Tripodi on his eighteen year journey to uncover the secrets of body memory and how one's unconscious hold on the past is the invisible source of pain, fatigue, anxiety, depression, and repetitive life experiences. From his personal story - My Awakening to Body Memory in Part I through the fascinating science and case studies in Part II, Jonathan illuminates a healing path that is missed in traditional medicine and therapy that ultimately transforms body memory and accumulated stress which in turn enables individuals to manifest positive changes in their body and life that were previously considered impossible.
Disciplining Bodies In The Gymnasium
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Author : Patricia Anne Vertinsky
language : en
Publisher: Psychology Press
Release Date : 2004
Disciplining Bodies In The Gymnasium written by Patricia Anne Vertinsky and has been published by Psychology Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Architecture categories.
The prize-winning War Memorial Gymnasium at the University of British Columbia is discussed here, examining what the building's design, construction and shifting functions reveal about the university's values during the post-war years.