SUNY series, The Body in Culture, History, and Religion – serie
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Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy
Av Yasuo Yuasa
Häftad, 1993
463 kr
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An inquiry into ki-energy, its role within Eastern mind-body theory, and its implications for our contemporary Western understanding of the body.This book is an inquiry into ki-energy, its role within Eastern mind-body theory, and its implications for our contemporary Western understanding of the …
People of the Body
Jews and Judaism from an Embodied Perspective
Häftad, 1992
504 kr
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By shifting attention from the image of Jews as a textual community to the ways Jews understand and manage their bodies - for example, to their concerns with reproduction and sexuality, menstruation and childbirth- this volume contributes to a revisioning of what Jews and Judaism are and have been. …
Hadewijch and Her Sisters
Other Ways of Loving and Knowing
Häftad, 1993
455 kr
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Hadewijch, a thirteenth-century woman, describes her relationship with God as a mutual loving in which God and she affect each other personally and profoundly. This book presents in detail the account by Hadewijch of this supreme and most satisfying experience.Presented here are phenomenologically …
Giving the Body Its Due
Häftad, 1992
393 kr
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These essays bring together disciplinary understandings of what it is to be the bodies we are. In its own way, each essay calls into question certain culturally-embedded ways of valuing the body which deride or ignore its role in making us human. These ways have remained virtually unchanged since …
Giving the Body Its Due
Inbunden, 1992
1111 kr
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These essays bring together disciplinary understandings of what it is to be the bodies we are. In its own way, each essay calls into question certain culturally-embedded ways of valuing the body which deride or ignore its role in making us human. These ways have remained virtually unchanged since …
Blind People
The Private and Public Life of Sightless Israelis
Häftad, 1992
394 kr
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Blind People approaches disability from a fresh perspective: people with an unusual body are conceived of relativistically as a variant of humanity, much the way anthropology approaches people of different culture. While deeply empathic to its subject matter, Blind People raises questions that …
Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment
The Denaturalization of the Body in Culture and Text
Av Frances E. Mascia-Lees, Patricia Sharpe
Häftad, 1992
406 kr
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Analyzes the power of culture to encode its messages on the human form.Contemporary theory across a wide range of disciplines denaturalizes the body and reveals it to be a social construction. Cultural practices which deform, adorn, mutilate, and obliterate the body illustrate that it is an …
Life of Illness
One Woman's Journey
Inbunden, 1992
1087 kr
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The Life of Illness tells the story of one woman's courageous struggle with kidney failure, illness, and death. It is, however, a book about life, hope, faith, and the transformative power of caring for one another.Carol Olson writes "from the heart of experience," having shared a life of illness …
Life of Illness
One Woman's Journey
Häftad, 1992
401 kr
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The Life of Illness tells the story of one woman's courageous struggle with kidney failure, illness, and death. It is, however, a book about life, hope, faith, and the transformative power of caring for one another.Carol Olson writes "from the heart of experience," having shared a life of illness …
Attunement Through the Body
Häftad, 1992
373 kr
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Preparatory to restoring humaneness,Attunement Through the Body offers an innovative, philosophical model for overcoming mind-body dualism and its negative consequences through a systematic elucidation of the concept and the phenomenon of attunement. It invites readers to re-evaluate an undue …
Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature
Av Lloyd Davis
Häftad, 1992
462 kr
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This book examines the figure of the virgin, a symbol central to many aspects of society and sexuality in nineteenth-century England, and its effects on the Victorian literary imagination. Studying the virgin as a social, sexual, and literary phenomenon, the volume contributes to current critical …
One Blood
The Jamaican Body
Häftad, 1993
422 kr
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One Blood offers a wealth of ethnographic material, skillfully using traditional Jamaican images and expressions to present a coherent and systematic depiction of the Jamaican body, of how it works and of how health is maintained. Sobo explains some of the more complex issues of medical …
Textual Bodies
Changing Boundaries of Literary Representation
Häftad, 1997
462 kr
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Illustrates changing definitions of bodily limits, integrity, transgression, sexuality, and violation in the history of the Western canon.In lively and accessible essays of literary criticism, this book approaches literature from classical times through the present with an emphasis on the place and …
