The Gift Or Techniques Of The Body
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The Gift
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Author : Barbara Browning
language : en
Publisher: Coffee House Press
Release Date : 2017-04-17
The Gift written by Barbara Browning and has been published by Coffee House Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-04-17 with Fiction categories.
In the midst of Occupy, Barbara Andersen begins spamming people indiscriminately with ukulele covers of sentimental songs. A series of inappropriate intimacies ensued, including an erotically charged correspondence and then collaboration with an extraordinarily gifted and troubled musician living in Germany.
The Gift Or Techniques Of The Body
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Author : Barbara Browning
language : en
Publisher: Emily Books
Release Date : 2017
The Gift Or Techniques Of The Body written by Barbara Browning and has been published by Emily Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Fiction categories.
A sometimes funny, sometimes catastrophically sad story of performance art, ukuleles, dance, and our attempts and failures to make contact.
The Gifts Of The Body
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Author : Rebecca Brown
language : en
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
Release Date : 1994
The Gifts Of The Body written by Rebecca Brown and has been published by HarperCollins Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1994 with Fiction categories.
A woman volunteer who cares for people with AIDS narrates a poignant account of the clients she comes to love in her role as a home-care aide, in a bittersweet novel about life, illness, death, and remembrance. By the author of The Children's Crusade.
Material Culture
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Author : Victor Buchli
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2004
Material Culture written by Victor Buchli and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Social Science categories.
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The Gift And Its Paradoxes
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Author : Olli Pyyhtinen
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-03-03
The Gift And Its Paradoxes written by Olli Pyyhtinen and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-03-03 with Philosophy categories.
Bringing social theory and philosophy to bear on popular movies, novels, myths, and fairy tales, The Gift and its Paradoxes explores the ambiguity of the gift: it is at once both a relation and a thing, alienable and inalienable, present and poison. Challenging the nature of giving as reciprocal, the book engages critically with the work of Mauss and develops a new theory of the gift according to which the gift cannot be reduced to a model of exchange, but must instead entail a loss or sacrifice. Ultimately, the gift is examined in the book as the impossible occurrence of gratuitous giving. In addition to exploring the conditions of possibility and impossibility of the gift, the book draws on the thought of figures such as Derrida, Serres, Simmel, Cixous, Irigaray and Heidegger to argue for the relevance of the phenomenon of the gift to broader issues in contemporary social sciences. It takes up questions concerning the constitution of community and the processes by which people are included in or excluded from it, gender relations, materiality, the economy, and the possibility that death itself could be a gift, in the form of euthanasia or self-sacrifice. A rigorous yet accessible examination of the phenomenon of the gift in relation to a range of contemporary concerns, The Gift and its Paradoxes will appeal to scholars and students within sociology, philosophy, anthropology, political theory and film and literature studies.
Religion And The Body
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2012-02-17
Religion And The Body written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-02-17 with Philosophy categories.
This book reflects on the implications of neurobiology and the scientific worldview on aspects of religious experience, belief, and practice, focusing especially on the body and the construction of religious meaning.
Agency And Embodiment
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Author : Carrie Noland
language : en
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Release Date : 2010-02-15
Agency And Embodiment written by Carrie Noland and has been published by Harvard University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-02-15 with Social Science categories.
In Agency and Embodiment, Carrie Noland examines the ways in which culture is both embodied and challenged through the corporeal performance of gestures. Arguing against the constructivist metaphor of bodily inscription dominant since Foucault, Noland maintains that kinesthetic experience, produced by acts of embodied gesturing, places pressure on the conditioning a body receives, encouraging variations in cultural practice that cannot otherwise be explained. Drawing on work in disciplines as diverse as dance and movement theory, phenomenology, cognitive science, and literary criticism, Noland argues that kinesthesia—feeling the body move—encourages experiment, modification, and, at times, rejection of the routine. Noland privileges corporeal performance and the sensory experience it affords in order to find a way beyond constructivist theory’s inability to produce a convincing account of agency. She observes that despite the impact of social conditioning, human beings continue to invent surprising new ways of altering the inscribed behaviors they are called on to perform. Through lucid close readings of Marcel Mauss, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Bill Viola, André Leroi-Gourhan, Henri Michaux, Judith Butler, Frantz Fanon, Jacques Derrida, and contemporary digital artist Camille Utterback, Noland illustrates her provocative thesis, addressing issues of concern to scholars in critical theory, performance studies, anthropology, and visual studies.
Techniques Technology And Civilization
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Author : Nathan Schlanger
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2020-06-01
Techniques Technology And Civilization written by Nathan Schlanger and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-06-01 with Social Science categories.
Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection of Mauss's texts — including his major statements on methodology, on body techniques, on practical reason, on nation and civilisation, on progress, and so forth — are here translated and presented together for the first time, with a discussion of their context, impact and implications. This book will interest scholars and students dealing with the French sociological tradition, and also more generally those concerned with technology and material culture studies in archaeological,anthropological or contemporary settings.
Techniques Technology And Civilization
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Author : Marcel Mauss
language : en
Publisher: Berghahn Books
Release Date : 2006-03
Techniques Technology And Civilization written by Marcel Mauss and has been published by Berghahn Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-03 with Social Science categories.
Marcel Mauss's writings on techniques and technology are at the forefront of an important anthropological and sociological research tradition, and they also highlight the theoretical and ideological challenges surrounding this field of study. A selection of Mauss's texts — including his major statements on methodology, on body techniques, on practical reason, on nation and civilisation, on progress, and so forth — are here translated and presented together for the first time, with a discussion of their context, impact and implications. This book will interest scholars and students dealing with the French sociological tradition, and also more generally those concerned with technology and material culture studies in archaeological,anthropological or contemporary settings.
The Human Body In The Age Of Catastrophe
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Author : Stefanos Geroulanos
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2018-08-13
The Human Body In The Age Of Catastrophe written by Stefanos Geroulanos and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-08-13 with History categories.
The injuries suffered by soldiers during WWI were as varied as they were brutal. How could the human body suffer and often absorb such disparate traumas? Why might the same wound lead one soldier to die but allow another to recover? In The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe, Stefanos Geroulanos and Todd Meyers uncover a fascinating story of how medical scientists came to conceptualize the body as an integrated yet brittle whole. Responding to the harrowing experience of the Great War, the medical community sought conceptual frameworks to understand bodily shock, brain injury, and the vast differences in patient responses they occasioned. Geroulanos and Meyers carefully trace how this emerging constellation of ideas became essential for thinking about integration, individuality, fragility, and collapse far beyond medicine: in fields as diverse as anthropology, political economy, psychoanalysis, and cybernetics. Moving effortlessly between the history of medicine and intellectual history, The Human Body in the Age of Catastrophe is an intriguing look into the conceptual underpinnings of the world the Great War ushered in.