Perspectives on the Body in Ancient Nubia

2021 ◽  
pp. 1032-1050
Author(s):  
Rachael J. Dann
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Explicit Study

Despite the richness of the record relating to the art, texts, and archaeology of the Sudanese past there has been a lack of explicit study or theorization of the human body. There is much potential and scope for a discussion of how the body has been represented through time, but also for how the body as the medium through which the social is experienced has been constructed and has changed through time. A range of possible approaches to the study of the human body are presented here.

scholarly journals Fall-Recovery Technique as Technology in Dancer’s Body

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (2) ◽  
pp. 67-74
Author(s):  
Kiki Rahmatika
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Social Life ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Recovery Technique ◽  
The Right ◽  
Fall Recovery

the human body is a tool that capable of understanding and then reveal various problems that exist in the social life. Body as tool means a body that has a technique or as technology that is able to express the problem. if the body has been positioned as a tool, of course the tool must have a technique that has been honed its ability. For example fall-recovery’s technique which is discovered by dorris Humphrey. then to get to the technique, the body must get treatment, conditioning and emphasis through strict discipline. ultimately the techniques that make the body into technology will be constructed through body behavior which is doing by long exercises and method from the right technique.

scholarly journals FROM THE MONARCHY TREE TO NATION: THE USE OF METAPHORS IN EARLY MODERN FRENCH POLITICAL DISCOURSE

2021 ◽  
Vol 29 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-68
Author(s):  
Ludmila Pimenova ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Early Modern ◽  
French Revolution ◽  
Social Contract ◽  
Human Body ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Body Metaphor ◽  
New Interpretation ◽  
The Republic

The article examines three legal treatises written between the late 16th and late 18th centuries, whose authors used the language of metaphors, analyzing also the way this language was reflected in images. Both jurists and artists tried to demonstrate to their readers and spectators that society was unified and, at the same time, consisted of estates unequal in their status. For this purpose, metaphors of the human body, tree, army, and family were used. Over the period under discussion, the attitude towards metaphors changed significantly. Although the possibility of using the language of metaphors to adequately describe and know society was put into doubt more than once in the 17th and 18th centuries, contemporaries did not abandon this language. In the 18th century, many of the usual metaphors were rethought in Enlightenment literature, as well as in journalism and propaganda texts published on the eve of the French Revolution. The body metaphor received a new interpretation within the framework of the social contract concept, while the image of France as the king’s spouse was transformed into the figure of Marianne the Republic.

A Brief History of Body Shape

2021 ◽  
pp. 7-46
Author(s):  
Nathan Denton
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Body Shape ◽  
Modern Human ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Social Meanings ◽  
History Of ◽  
Winning Strategies ◽  
Physical Features ◽  
Over Time

Like the vast numbers of other organisms that roam, or have roamed, the earth, the modern human represents a finely honed tool—one forged through millennia as it struggled to survive and thrive in more or less unaccommodating environments. Displaying the battle scars and winning strategies of its brutal, but ultimately triumphant battle against the elements, our bodies hold vast amounts of encrypted information that describe our biological lineage. In addition to the countless mechanisms that have evolved to support our existence, however, the human body is somewhat unique in that it exhibits striking permanent physiological differences that identify and define the sexes. The biology that arises from, and the social meanings attributed to, these physical features penetrate deep into the heart of what it means to be human, as well as a man or a woman. Before delving into the biology of fat, we must first therefore consider the history of body shape. This chapter begins by discussing several explanations for why the modern human body might have evolved the shape it has, and why the body differs between the sexes. Building from this foundation, it examines how societal attitudes toward body shape are ascribed and their shift over time.

Corporeal Ontology: Beyond Mind-Body Dualism?

Politics ◽  
2005 ◽  
Vol 25 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-11 ◽  
Author(s):  
Laura Jenkins
Keyword(s):  
Political Science ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Human Subject ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Political ◽  
The Social ◽  
Scientific Status ◽  
The Mind ◽  
Dynamic Interplay

The definition and boundaries of the political have received considerable attention in recent times in political science, perhaps as a result of the wavering confidence in the scientific status of the knowledge that the discipline creates. However, a conspicuous absence continues to haunt mainstream political science, one that if rectified threatens, in some ways, to broaden both the nature of the political still further and to challenge the very division of knowledge into the social and natural sciences. This absence is the human body and this article seeks to ask after its exclusion and to suggest that its exclusion is both political and needs rectifying. I argue that the exclusion of the body in political science is a consequence of an inadequate ontological short cut, which is accepted (mostly) unquestioningly by political analysts and which has severe epistemological and methodological consequences. I suggest that a more reflective consideration of the body and its dynamic interplay with the mind could offer the discipline a greater understanding of the human subject, as well as alter power-knowledge relations.

scholarly journals BODIES OF A CITY: THE ISSUE OF HOMELESSNESS REVEALED IN ANDRES SERRANO’S ARTBODIES OF A CITY: THE ISSUE OF HOMELESSNESS REVEALED IN ANDRES SERRANO’S ART

2021 ◽  
Vol 9 (58) ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
New York ◽  
Social Structure ◽  
Human Body ◽  
The Body ◽  
The Social ◽  
Art Works ◽  
The Subject ◽  
The Times

In this article, the reflections of the problem "homelessness" in the field of art will be examined through three different art works created by Andres Serrano within the framework of the subject. The artist focuses on the problem of homelessness in the state of New York, United States, in his art series titled "Nomads” (1990), "Sign of the Times (2013) and “Residents of New York” (2014). Human body is the smallest unit that forms the social structure. It’s effects of its situation between the dilemma of existence and absence in social and psychological areas, will be covered through the dialogues held with the participants that took place in the artist's project. The coding and positioning of the body within the framework of the definition and classification of homeless / homelessness will be mentioned. Besides, the process of transforming the problem into an art work in a creative way will be evaluated. Keywords: Andres Serrano, homeless, homelesness, body, “Nomads”, “Sign of the Times”, “Residents of New York”

scholarly journals Human Body in Traditional Views of Turkic and Mongolian Peoples: Blood and Circulatory System

2020 ◽  
Vol 34 ◽  
pp. 49-58
Author(s):  
M. M. Sodnompilova ◽  
◽  
B. Z. Nanzatov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Significant Role ◽  
Human Body ◽  
Biological Fluid ◽  
Circulatory System ◽  
The Body ◽  
Human Anatomy ◽  
Hereditary Diseases ◽  
Inner Asia ◽  
The Social

The study of the human body in the system of traditional somatic ideas of the Turkic and Mongolian peoples of Inner Asia is urgent in the studies of humans as a social and biological beings. The problem of perception and comprehension of the composition of the main features constituting the human body, particularly such biological fluid as blood, is of particular interest in the study of mythological human anatomy. The interest in this element of the human body is due to the increased attention of the Turkic and Mongolian peoples to blood. The views on the nature of blood, the source of its formation, many prohibitions and signs associated with blood are known. Many concepts associated with human anatomy, including blood, formed the basis for the organization of the social structure of nomadic societies. Understanding the significant role of this biological fluid in the functioning of the body formed a certain system of ideas about the dependence of health, hereditary diseases and even a person's character on the appearance and volume of blood as the characteristics of this biological fluid available for visual perception. Blood unlike bone is mobile and changeable in the context of social interpretations. If the bone of the progenitor was not being changed passing to all his descendants, then the blood of representatives of the social community, who took women from different clans as wives, was mixed in marriage unions. The views of the Turkic and Mongolian peoples of Inner Asia on the composition of blood are characterized by uncertainty. The idea of a vital substance, a soul was widely developed in the worldview of the Turko-Mongols. Blood is one of the containers of the vital substance. A number of prohibitions and restrictions associated with blood allow us to talk about the significant role of the sun as a source of life, giving its vital energy to the blood. Obviously, evidence of this “relationship” is the color (red) and the warmth inherent to blood. However, ideas on the nature of blood formed in the traditional worldview of the Mongolian and Turkic peoples and recorded in the 18–19 centuries significantly differ from the early views of the ancestors of the nomads. Reconstruction of the Pra-Altai language made it possible to restore one of the key meanings of the term čiunu (blood) – “soul”, “wind”. We believe that early views on the nature of blood were greatly influenced by the phenomenon of respiration, which is characteristic of all beings.

The Body

2020 ◽  
pp. 51-70
Author(s):  
Peter Thonemann
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Social Order ◽  
The Body ◽  
Male And Female ◽  
The Social ◽  
Symbolic Meanings ◽  
Different Dimensions ◽  
Classificatory System ◽  
Left Front ◽  
Extended Discussion

This chapter focuses on Oneirocritica Book 1, which is largely dedicated to the human body and body-symbolism, and examines the ways in which Artemidorus’ conception of the body and its functions might be historically and culturally distinctive. Artemidorus offers us a remarkably detailed and coherent ‘tour’ of the symbolic meanings of the constituent parts of the male and female body, based around a series of polarities (upper and lower, right and left, front and back), which reflect three different dimensions of the social order (status, age, gender). The ways in which bodies are gendered (firmness, dryness, vigour) in Artemidorus’ body-symbolism are discussed in detail, and the extraordinary over-signification of the male penis and under-signification of the female vagina in Artemidorus’ classificatory system are highlighted. The chapter concludes with an extended discussion of the presentation of physical and mental disability in the Oneirocritica.

scholarly journals O corpo da cena no balé clássico: entre técnicas, expressividade e imitações prestigiosas

2020 ◽  
Vol 1 (48) ◽  
pp. 201
Author(s):  
Kátia Silva Souza dos Anjos ◽  
Marília Velardi ◽  
Régia Cristina Oliveira
Keyword(s):  
Human Body ◽  
Performing Arts ◽  
Theoretical Perspective ◽  
The Body ◽  
Qualitative Investigation ◽  
The Social ◽  
Semistructured Interviews ◽  
Professional Dancers ◽  
Classical Ballet ◽  
Do So

<p class="western" align="justify">Considered as one of the possibilities of performing arts, the classical ballet can be understood as a way in which stories depend on characters who, without the use of words, enact stories which are typical of the traditional repertoire. This text aims to discuss issues related to the body of the scene, the scenic body of the artist in classical ballet. In order to do so, we conducted a qualitative investigation and used the observation of ballet shows and ten semistructured interviews with Brazilian professional dancers as investigation techniques. The testimonies of the classical professional dancers were the material that allowed the analyzes of the speeches. Based on the analyzes, we highlight the following results: the existence of a prestigious imitation among the dancers who were interviewed; the existence of an “extracotidiano 1” body in classical ballet; the existence of explicit and implicit techniques in ballet. The study is based upon a theoretical perspective that takes not only the body of classical ballet and its techniques, but the human body itself and its techniques as sociocultural reality, produced in culture, according to rules and values defined by this reality and the social field that builds them.</p>

Fictions of the Human Right to Health: Writing Against the Postcolonial Exotic in Western Medicine

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rosemary J. Jolly
Keyword(s):  
Health Research ◽  
Western Medicine ◽  
Scientific Method ◽  
Medical Humanities ◽  
Right To Health ◽  
The Body ◽  
Health And Wellness ◽  
Human Right ◽  
Cultural Specificity ◽  
The Social

The last decade has witnessed far greater attention to the social determinants of health in health research, but literary studies have yet to address, in a sustained way, how narratives addressing issues of health across postcolonial cultural divides depict the meeting – or non-meeting – of radically differing conceptualisations of wellness and disease. This chapter explores representations of illness in which Western narrators and notions of the body are juxtaposed with conceptualisations of health and wellness entirely foreign to them, embedded as the former are in assumptions about Cartesian duality and the superiority of scientific method – itself often conceived of as floating (mysteriously) free from its own processes of enculturation and their attendant limits. In this respect my work joins Volker Scheid’s, in this volume, in using the capacity of critical medical humanities to reassert the cultural specificity of what we have come to know as contemporary biomedicine, often assumed to be

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