Titlebook: Body, Meaning, Healing; Thomas J. Csordas Book 2002 Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2002 anthropology.biological.eno

adduction

The Rhetoric of Transformation in Ritual Healing moment in which it finds a voice, where the anguished clash of bare life and raw existence emerges from muteness into articulation. An understanding of healing as an existential process requires description of the processes of treatment and specification of concrete psychological and social effects

心神不宁

Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology be elaborated for the study of culture and self. By paradigm I mean simply a consistent methodological perspective that encourages reanalysis of existing data and suggests new questions for empirical research. Although I shall argue that a paradigm of embodiment transcends different methodologies,

modish

A Handmaid’s Tale, they are rituals aimed at the healing of a particular cultural construction of grief and guilt predicated upon a particular ethnopsycholog of the person. I will first present the North American ritual and ther contrast it with a parallel ritual in contemporary Japan.

有其法作用

圆柱

Neutral-Spine

消灭

The Sore that Does Not Healylor (Zempleni 1985). The Navajo ethnomedical system, one of the most extensively studied, is known to be particularly concerned with the determination and elimination of causes of illness. Two features of the Navajo literature are of relevance for the present argument. First, within the Navajo syst

我悲伤

Instrumental

Somatic Modes of Attention is “good to think,” but as a subject that is “necessary to be.” To argue by analogy, a phenomenological paradigm of embodiment can be offered as an equivalent, and complement, to the semiotic paradigm of culture as text. Much as Roland Barthes (1986) draws a distinction between the work and the tex

Bereavement