Embodiments of Cultural Encounters
| Titel: | Embodiments of Cultural Encounters / Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun |
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| Ausgabe: | 1st, New ed. |
| Veröffentlicht: | [Erscheinungsort nicht ermittelbar] : Waxmann Verlag GmbH, 2011 |
| Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource (272 p.) |
| Format: | E-Book |
| Sprache: | Englisch |
| Schriftenreihe/ mehrbändiges Werk: |
Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship ; 3 |
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| ISBN: | 9783830975489 ; 9783830925484 |
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| Zusammenfassung: |
This volume brings together contributions by scholars of various disciplines that address physical aspects and effects of cultural encounters in historical and present-day settings. Bodies were and are not only markers of cultural identity and difference, endlessly inscribed and represented as the 'body politic' or 'the exotic other'; as battlegrounds of cross-cultural signification and identification bodies are also potential agents of change. Yet, as the volume also shows, formerly colonized people, far from subjecting themselves completely to Western discourses of physical discipline, retain traditional body practices - whether in food culture, religious ritual, or musical performances. Such local reinscriptions escape the grip of Western culture and transform the global semantics of the body. |
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