Embodiment and Experience: The Existential Ground of Culture and Self

Introduction: the body as representation and being-in-the-world Thomas J. Csordas Part I. Paradigms and Polemics: 1. Bodies and anti-bodies: flesh and fetish in contemporary social theory Terence Turner 2. Society's body: emotion and the 'somatization' of social theory M. L. Lyon and J. M. Barbalet Part II. Form, Appearance and Movement: 3. The political economy of injury and compassion: amputees on the Thai-Cambodia border Lindsay French 4. Nurturing and negligence: working on others' bodies in Fiji Anne E. Becker 5. The silenced body - the expressive Leib: on the dialectic of mind and life in Chinese cathartic healing Thomas Ots Part III. Self, Sensibility, and Emotion: 6. Embodied metaphors: nerves as lived experience Setha M. Low 7. Bodily transactions of the passions: El Calor among Salvadoran women refugees Janis H. Jenkins and Martha Valiente 8. The embodiment of symbols and the acculturation of the anthropologist Carol Laderman Part IV. Pain and Meaning: 9. Chronic pain and the tension between the body as subject and object Jean Jackson 10. The individual in terror E. Valentine Daniel 11. Rape trauma: contexts of meaning Cathy Winkler 12. Words from the Holy People: a case study in cultural phenomenology Thomas J. Csordas.