Virtuality: Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, Cypherg

A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 504-520

  Boellstorff, Tom ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

AVATAR'S AVATAR motion picture Avatar. by James Cameron; Being in the world the digital relation; Ethnographic and theoretical understandings of virtual body powerful new ways; Phenomenological insight embodiment, part of being, and "being in the world"; politics of virtual embodiment theory of the virtual body that links; Theorizations of embodiment; virtual chora that virtual worlds are places; Virtual embodiment in practice; Virtual worlds, transforming understandings of the body; Virtuality placing the virtual body Avatar, Chora, Cypherg

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EID: 84884898057     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444340488.ch29     Document Type: Chapter

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