Bodylore

Forside
Katharine Young
Univ. of Tennessee Press, 1993 - 261 sider
With this book, a new field of inquiry is instantiated in folklore, bodylore. Coming out of work in critical theory and cultural studies, semiology and psychology, philosophy and communication, literature and psychoanalysis, anthropology and history, Bodylore investigates the bodily discourses and practices of various cultures, including our own, in order to delineate the metaphysics in terms of which we conceive and experience ourselves and others. The body is disclosed as a cultural artifact rather than a natural object, one invented and reinvented in and by its social appearances. The term bodylore was coined for the 1989 meeting of the American Folklore Society. It brings folkloristic concerns with body language, body costumes and accoutrements, body movement, discourses and representations of the body, body rituals and taboos, and beliefs about the body to a social history of embodiment.

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Deborah Kapchan 1 Moroccan Womens Body Signs
3
Illustrations
4
Women in American
35
BoundaryTransgression
57
GrotesqueEthereal
109
EmbodimentDisembodiment
163
Elizabeth Wickett 8 The Spirit in the Body
185
BodyText
203
Barbie Zelizer 10 From the Body as Evidence
225
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Om forfatteren (1993)

Katherine Galloway Young received her A.B. philosophy from UC Berkeley, followed by post-graduate study in aesthetics at the University of Edinburgh, Scotland, and received her M.A. and Ph.D. in folklore from the University of Pennsylvania. Her publications include several books and numerous articles.

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