ISBN:
0-12-103250-7
,
978-0-12-103250-0
ISSN:
0567-414X
Language:
English
Pages:
xii, 426 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Notenbeispiele
Series Statement:
ASA Monographs 15
Keywords:
Körper Körpersprache
;
Kommunikation
;
Folklore
;
Anthropologie, soziale
;
Anthropologie, medizinische
;
Sexualität
;
Scham
;
Tanz
;
Trance
Description / Table of Contents:
Preface -- Towards an anthropology of the body / John Blacking -- The body and the play within the play / Francis Huxley -- Biological and cultural contributions to body and facial movement / Paul Ekman -- The body as an indicator of health and disease / Ivan Polunin -- Why is shame on the skin? / Andrew Strathern -- Fear of sorcery and the problem of death by suggestion / Gilbert Lewis -- Bodily madness and the spread of the blush / Vieda Skultans -- On body products / J. B. Loudon -- The introduction of poses to a Peruvian brothel and changing images of male and female / Katherine Arnold -- The definition of female sexuality and the status of women among the Gujerati-speaking Indians of Johannesburg / Leora N. Rosenthal -- To dance is human / Judith Lynne Hanna -- Music and possession trance / Gilbert Rouget -- Some notes on the anthropology of dance / Roderyk Lange -- Patterns of body movement in the music of boys' initiation in South-East Angola / Gerhard Kubik -- Movement patterns in playing the Hreati dutar / John Baily -- The Benesh movement notation, with a comment by Brian Street, Rudolf and Joan Benesh -- Anatomical classification and the semiotics of the body / Roy F. Ellen -- The body as a social symbol among the Rom / Anne Sutherland -- Symbols and somatic structures / Lorna McDougall -- Notes on contributors -- Subject index -- Index of societies -- Author index
Note:
Enthält 19 Beiträge"This volume derives mainly from material presented at a conference on anthropology of the body, sponsored by the Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth, held at The Queen's University of Belfast, April 3rd - 5th 1975." (Rückseite des Titelblattes)
