Corporealities
Subtitle: dancing, knowledge, culture, and power
By: edited by Susan Leigh Foster.
Contributors: Foster, Susan Leigh.
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 1996
Place of publication: London; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 263
Subjects: Body, Human -- Social aspects; Body, Human -- Symbolic aspects; Dance -- Social aspects
Description: Corporealities vivifies the study of bodies through a consideration of bodily reality, not as natural or absolute given but as tangible and substantial category of cultural experience. The essays in this volume summon up bodies engaged in practices as diverse as pageantry, physical education, festivals and exhibitions, tourism, social and theatrical dance, and post-colonial and psychoanalytic encounters. They bring these bodies to life, quivering with all the political, gendered, social, racial, sexual, and aesthetic resonances of which bodily motion is capable.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-260) and index.