Personhood-embodiment and personhood

A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 388-402

  Strathern, Andrew J ^a   Stewart, Pamela J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH   (United States)

Author keywords

efficacy, cognition and intelligibility ritual processes and ritual efficacy problems; Embodiment as concept and theory; Embodiment and personhood further clarification; Embodiment, involving all senses; Gossip, rupture and virtuality; Language use the most obvious example; Personhood embodiment and personhood; Personhood, implicated here basic categories, intrinsic; ritual and performance at comparative level, differences of habitus; the mindful body number of interrelated analytical sites, personhood and embodiment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84885557931     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781444340488.ch22     Document Type: Chapter

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