The Anthropology of the Body 7771793, 0121032507, 9780121032500
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English Pages xii + 426 [432] Year 1977
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- John Blacking
- Commentary
- Association of Social Anthropologists of the Commonwealth
Table of contents :
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 Herati dutār / John Baily --
The Benesh movement notation / Rudolf and Joan Benesh ; with a comment by Brian Street --
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.
