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Embodiment and Cognitive Science

Author: Raymond W. Gibbs Jr
Publisher: Cambridge University Pre
Keywords: science, cognitive, embodiment
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2005-12-05
List price: $28.99
ISBN-10: 0521010497
ISBN-13: 9780521010498

This book describes the many ways that the mind and body are closely interrelated, and how human thought and language are fundamentally linked to bodily action. The embodied nature of mind is explored through many topics, such as perception, thinking, language use, development, emotions, and consciousness. People’s embodied experiences are critical to the ways they think and speak and, most generally, understand themselves, other people, and the world around them. This work provides a strong defense of the idea that embodied action is critical to the study of human cognition.Book Descrip

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The Embodiment of Bhakti

Author: Karen Pechilis Prentiss
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: bhakti, embodiment
Number of Pages: 288
Published: 2000-01-06
List price: $125.00
ISBN-10: 0195128133
ISBN-13: 9780195128130

This book offers an interpretive history of bhakti, an influential religious perspective in Hinduism. Prentiss argues that although bhakti is mentioned in every contemporary sourcebook on Indian religions, it still lacks an agreed-upon definition. "Devotion" is found to be the most commonly used synonym. Prentiss seeks a new perspective on this elusive concept. Her analysis of Tamil (south Indian) materials leads her to suggest that bhakti be understood as a doctrine of embodiment. Bhakti, she says, urges people towards active engagement in the worship of God. She proposes that the term "devot

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Reflexive Embodiment in Contemporary Society

Author: Nick Crossley
Publisher: Open University Press
Keywords: society, contemporary, embodiment, reflexive
Number of Pages: 159
Published: 2006-09-01
List price: $57.95
ISBN-10: 0335216978
ISBN-13: 9780335216970

In this book, Nick Crossley explores the concept of reflexive embodiment – how we, as embodied beings, reflect upon our own embodiment. He considers the ways in which we modify and maintain our bodies, from brushing our teeth and washing our faces through to tattooing and bodybuilding. Some forms of ‘body work’ are demanded by social conventions; others represent legitimate choices, and others still deviate from or resist the norm. He argues that a proper understanding of reflexive embodiment must be alert to these differences, and that we must appreciate that our bodies are not passive

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Self-Made Men: Identity and Embodiment among Transsexual Men

Author: Henry Rubin
Publisher: Vanderbilt University Press
Keywords: men, transsexual, among, identity, made, embodiment
Number of Pages: 224
Published: 2003-06-01
List price: $22.95
ISBN-10: 0826514359
ISBN-13: 9780826514356

In Self-Made Men, Henry Rubin explores the production of male identities in the lives of twenty-two FTM transsexuals--people who have changed their sex from female to male. The author relates the compelling personal narratives of his subjects to the historical emergence of FTM as an identity category. In the interviews that form the heart of the book, the FTMs speak about their struggles to define themselves and their diverse experiences, from the pressures of gender conformity in adolescence to being mistaken for "butch lesbians," from hormone treatments and surgeries to relationships with

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Belief, Bodies, and Being: Feminist Reflections on Embodiment

Author: Kathleen Earle
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Keywords: embodiment, reflections, feminist, bodies, belief
Number of Pages: 232
Published: 2006-04-06
List price: $33.95
ISBN-10: 0742514153
ISBN-13: 9780742514157

InBelief, Bodies, and Being, thirteen distinguished contributors present diverse and illuminating viewpoints on feminist issues of embodiement, materialism, and agency from feminist and postmodernist philosophical perspectives.