axiomatic claim that there is an intrinsic value to choice and freedom, finding inspiration in the sociological literature on embodiment such as to find its normative referent, while adding heft and substance to the becoming of the subject as an agent in the
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The Embodiment of Learning and Teaching
The Enigma of Non-arrival
Nigel Rapport and Noa Vaisman
How people arrive at their convictions, and how they come to change them, remain immensely difficult questions. This article approaches convictions as manifestations of individuals' embodiment, and as allegories of their lives. As well as a rehearsing of moments of his own embodied learning, the main author engages in an email exchange with the second author, pondering how he might answer her questions about an anthropological methodology which more nearly approaches others' embodied experiences: the convictions represented by informants' words and behaviours. The article ends inconclusively. An individual's knowledge of body and self is part of that body and self, situated amid world-views and life-projects. Alongside the radical otherness of anthropologists' informants is the relative otherness of anthropologists to themselves. Our disciplinary conclusions concerning convictions, own and other, must remain provisional and open.
In Anthropology in Action
- Published (Print):
- 01 Jun 2005
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- Research Article
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- 1–11 (10 total)
Modernist Embodiment
Sisyphean Landscape Allegory in Cinema
David Melbye
its diagonal progression across the screen, slowly ascending the muddy slope, in this unusual substitution of human character for manmade apparatus. Yet, the film's embodiment of Sisyphean physiological experience, per se, persists in tighter shots of
The Tacit Logic of Ritual Embodiments
Rappaport and Polanyi between Thick and Thin
Robert E. Innis
Roy Rappaport’s attempted semiotic schematization of the logic of ritual, relying on analytical tools from C. S. Peirce’s philosophical semiotics, is examined in terms of both its conceptual coherence and its relation to other schematizations of ritual, especially Michael Polanyi’s thematization of a ‘tacit logic’ of meaning-making. The Peircean foregrounding of sign types (icons, indices, symbols) is compared to Polanyi’s delineation of an irreducible from-to structure of consciousness, rooted in the distinction between focal and subsidiary awareness, and to his further distinction between indication and symbolization as ways of relating to and effecting symbolic complexes, such as rituals. One of the startling upshots of this comparison is that the distinctions between ‘thick ritual’ and ‘thin ritual,’ and between art and ritual, become extremely labile. Examples from Ralph Waldo Emerson, Philip Larkin, and Simone Weil illustrate this last point.
In Social Analysis
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- 01 Jun 2004
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 195–212 (18 total)
Becoming a Super-Masculine “Cool Guy”
Reflexivity, Dominant and Hegemonic Masculinities, and Sexual Violence
James W. Messerschmidt
of the adolescent boys (see Messerschmidt 2016 for the full life story )—which is the subject of this article—reveals a close relationship among in-school bullying, reflexivity, embodiment, and dominant and hegemonic masculinities in understanding
Society, Morality, Embodiment
Tracing Durkheim's Legacy
Sondra L. Hausner
articles in this volume, Elisabeth Hsu pushes further still and asks where Durkheim's thinking – and that of his équipe and Mauss in particular – can take us in contemporary studies of embodiment. In one fell swoop does she combine ethnography, genealogy
Christopher Howard and Wendelin Küpers
in a dynamic network or mesh-work of connections. Developed from a phenomenological and processual understanding of place, embodiment, and technology, the article especially highlights the role that mobile technologies play in mediating and
‘You Mean Some Strange Revenge’
The Jacobean Intersections of Revenge and the Strange
Katherine M. Graham
that Beaumont and Fletcher's King and Middleton's Duke should be added to Bacon's list. In what follows, I chart this shift in deployment, demonstrating that the initial use of the term strange, when it is attached to a person, emphasises embodiment
Livia Jiménez Sedano
daily experiences that they symbolise through movement – would lead to a minimum level of inner understanding of the kinetic culture. As a consequence, the embodiment process would take long years of effort, and the dance studio would not be considered
In Anthropological Journal of European Cultures
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- 01 Jun 2019
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 73–77 (5 total)
Deliberating Bodies
Democracy, Identification, and Embodiment
Amanda Machin
The significance of embodiment has long been overlooked in theories of deliberative democracy. Deliberation is characterized by inclusive and rational discussion that functions in an allegedly neutral and abstract space. This article draws attention to the bodies between which political interaction always occurs. Bodies have important yet unpredictable effects for political interaction and can extend or disorder the careful conscious conversation invoked by deliberative democrats. Identities are reproduced by bodies, and bodies may conform to or transform their identifications. Using Merleau-Ponty's notion of habitual knowledge, the article argues that bodies provide limitations, capacities, and opportunities for democratic politics. At the same time, bodies and their identifications are themselves transformed through deliberation and other types of political experience.
In Democratic Theory
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- 01 Jun 2015
- Article Type:
- Research Article
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- 42–62 (21 total)