期刊全称 | Anthropology through the Experience of the Physical Body | 影响因子2023 | Kaori Fushiki,Ryoko Sakurada | 视频video | | 发行地址 | Approaches the study of the body—how it is conceptualized and experienced—from an anthropological perspective.Provides empirically rich accounts from Asia of how cultural, environment, and social norm | 图书封面 |  | 影响因子 | This book seeks to break new ground, both empirically and conceptually, in examining changing understandings of the physical human body from a variety of anthropological perspectives. In doing so, it interrogates how the body has been and continues to be conceptualised, experienced and interacted with. After an introductory appraisal of recent approaches to understanding the body, the book provides empirically rich accounts from East and Southeast Asia of how cultural, environmental and social norms shape human physicality. The contributions are organised in four broad themes. Part I, ‘Body and Space’, offers two contrasting case studies from Malaysia, both of which examine gender norms associated with marriage and pregnancy, including the taboos associated with these rites of passage. Part II, ‘Imperfect Bodies: Communication and the Body as Media’, analyses two case studies—Deaf people in Japan and masked theatre performance in Bali, Indonesia, to reflect on changing attitudes towards disability, which reflect broader social norms and cultural beliefs about the nature of disability and its place in society. Part III, ‘The Body and Image’, provides a pair of case studies from Sing | Pindex | Book 2023 |
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