Embodiments of Cultural Encounters
The meeting of members of different cultures, frequently conceptualized in abstract terms, always involves the meeting of human bodies. This volume brings together contributions by scholars of various disciplines that address physical aspects and effects of cultural encounters in historical and pres...
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| description | The meeting of members of different cultures, frequently conceptualized in abstract terms, always involves the meeting of human bodies. 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. While some essays address the elusiveness of the ‘real’ or material body, forever lost behind a veil of textual and visual representation, others analyze the performative effect of such representations – their function of disciplining colonized bodies and subjects by integrating them into Western systems of cultural signification and scientific classification. 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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| spelling | doab-20.500.12854ir-975322024-03-29T04:24:57Z Embodiments of Cultural Encounters Jobs, Sebastian Mackenthun, Gesa Bodies and Cultural Encounters Same-Sex Sexuality and the Colonial Archive Sexualities in the French Foreign Legion African Pentecostal-type Christianity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies The meeting of members of different cultures, frequently conceptualized in abstract terms, always involves the meeting of human bodies. 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. While some essays address the elusiveness of the ‘real’ or material body, forever lost behind a veil of textual and visual representation, others analyze the performative effect of such representations – their function of disciplining colonized bodies and subjects by integrating them into Western systems of cultural signification and scientific classification. 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. Published 2023-03-01T09:59:18Z 2023-03-01T09:59:18Z 2011-08-30 book 9783830925484 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/97532 eng Cultural Encounters and the Discourses of Scholarship image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International https://www.waxmann.com/buch2548 https://www.waxmann.com/buch2548 Waxmann Verlag 10.31244/9783830975489 10.31244/9783830975489 73f853dd-22eb-4606-af25-819fc9d6debf 9783830925484 3 272 open access |
| spellingShingle | Bodies and Cultural Encounters Same-Sex Sexuality and the Colonial Archive Sexualities in the French Foreign Legion African Pentecostal-type Christianity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies Embodiments of Cultural Encounters |
| title | Embodiments of Cultural Encounters |
| title_full | Embodiments of Cultural Encounters |
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| title_short | Embodiments of Cultural Encounters |
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| topic | Bodies and Cultural Encounters Same-Sex Sexuality and the Colonial Archive Sexualities in the French Foreign Legion African Pentecostal-type Christianity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies |
| topic_facet | Bodies and Cultural Encounters Same-Sex Sexuality and the Colonial Archive Sexualities in the French Foreign Legion African Pentecostal-type Christianity thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBS Social groups, communities and identities::JBSF Gender studies, gender groups thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JB Society and culture: general::JBC Cultural and media studies::JBCC Cultural studies |
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