Embodiment and Experience
Subtitle: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self (Cambridge Studies in Medical Anthropology)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: January 27, 1995
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9780521452564
Subjects: Anthropology; Phenomenology & Existentialism; Symbolic aspects; Medical Anthropology; Archaeology / Anthropology; Religion; Anthropology - General; Body, Human--Social aspects; Social Science / Anthropology / General; Body, Human; Social aspects
First sentence: The current salience of bodily-related political movements and the importance of the body in current social and cultural theorizing is associated with the prominence of body-related themes in the culture of contemporary late capitalism.