Tag: Bodies

Earthly Bodies Embracing Animal Nature


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English | September 24, 2024 | ISBN: 0143137751 | 336 pages | PDF | 7.55 Mb
Examining the cultural belief that our animal instincts are to be corrected or corralled, nature advocate and rewilding facilitator Vanessa Chakour explores our inner and outer landscapes through the lens of wild animals.

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Languid Bodies, Grounded Stances The Curving Pathway of Neoclassical Odissi Dance


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English | ISBN: 1785333682 | 2016 | 234 pages | PDF | 1442 KB
Widely believed to be the oldest Indian dance tradition, odissi has transformed over the centuries from a sacred temple ritual to a transnational genre performed―and consumed―throughout the world. Building on ethnographic research in multiple locations, this book charts the evolution of odissi dance and reveals the richness, rigor, and complexity of the form as it is practiced today. As author and dancer-choreographer Nandini Sikand shows, the story of odissi is ultimately a story of postcolonial India, one in which identity, nationalism, tradition, and neoliberal politics dramatically come together.

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Bodies in Contact Rethinking Colonial Encounters in World History


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English | 2005 | pages: 460 | ISBN: 0822334550 | PDF | 2,0 mb
From portrayals of African women’s bodies in early modern European travel accounts to the relation between celibacy and Indian nationalism to the fate of the Korean "comfort women" forced into prostitution by the occupying Japanese army during the Second World War, the essays collected in Bodies in Contact demonstrate how a focus on the body as a site of cultural encounter provides essential insights into world history. Together these essays reveal the "body as contact zone" as a powerful analytic rubric for interpreting the mechanisms and legacies of colonialism and illuminating how attention to gender alters understandings of world history. Rather than privileging the operations of the Foreign Office or gentlemanly capitalists, these historical studies render the home, the street, the school, the club, and the marketplace visible as sites of imperial ideologies.

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Beautiful Bodies A Memoir


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English | 2017 | ISBN: 1477829571, 1503935175 | EPUB | pages: 234 | 0.8 mb
From the bestselling and beloved author of Coming Clean, a brave and witty examination of how and why we try to control our bodies with food.

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Different Bodies Essays on Disability in Film and Television


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English | ISBN: 0786465352 | 2013 | 284 pages | PDF | 3 MB
This collection of 19 new essays by 21 authors from the United States, the UK, Canada, Australia and India focuses on contemporary film and television (1989 to the present) from those countries as well as from China, Korea, Thailand and France. The essays are divided into two parts. The first includes critical readings of narrative film and television. The second includes contributions on documentaries, biopics and autobiographically-informed films.

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