"This volume emphasizes the role of bodily and material culture in making subjects, with a focus on empirical field research and theoretical sophistication. In particular, the work is situated in the anthropological study of techniques, materiality and power via the ideas of the…
Embodiment in evolution and culture
"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 diffe…
"Few things are as interesting to us as our own bodies and, by extension, our own identities. In recent years, there has been a growing interest in the relationship between the body, environment and society. Reflecting upon these developments, this book examines the role of the …
La propuesta del autor es dar a entender cómo los Ticuna conciben y representan el Ser du-ũ, a base de la reproducción social. El acercamiento de sus diferentes formas de expresión evidencian categorías -desprendidas de ello- que demuestran cómo el universo está formado de una m…
Retóricas del cuerpo amerindio
by Pitarch Ramón, Pedro, Gutiérrez Estévez, Manuel
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"A reader on world history that emphasises the centrality of raced, sexed & classed bodies as sites on which imperial power was imagined & exercised, this book examines the effects of global politics, capital & culture on everyday spaces & local cultural encounters"--Source : in…