Embodiment and experience

The existential ground of culture and self

Edited by

Thomas J . Csordas
Case Western Reserve University

CAMBRIDGE
UNIVERSITY PRESS
 Contents

List of illustrations page ix

List of contributors x
Preface xi

Introduction: the body as representation and being-in-the-world 1

THOMAS J . CSORDAS

P a r t I Paradigms and polemics

1 Bodies and anti-bodies: flesh and fetish in contemporary social
theory 27
TERENCE TURNER

2 Society's body: emotion and the "somatization" of social

theory 48
M. L . L Y O N AND J . M. BARBALET

P a r t II F o r m , appearance, and movement

3 The political economy of injury and compassion: amputees on
the Thai-Cambodia border 69
LINDSAY FRENCH

4 Nurturing and negligence: working on others' bodies in Fiji 100

ANNE E . BECKER

5 The silenced body - the expressive Leib: on the dialectic of

mind and life in Chinese cathartic healing 116
THOMAS OTS

P a r t III Self, sensibility, and emotion

6 Embodied metaphors: nerves as lived experience 139
SETHA M. L O W

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7 Bodily transactions of the passions: el calor among Salvadoran

women refugees 163
JANIS H. J E N K I N S AND MARTHA VALIENTE

8 The embodiment of symbols and the acculturation of the

anthropologist 183
CAROL LADERMAN

Part IV Pain and meaning

9 Chronic pain and the tension between the body as subject and
object 201
JEAN JACKSON

10 The individual in terror 229

E . V A L E N T I N E DANIEL

11 Rape trauma: contexts of meaning 248

CATHY W I N K L E R ( W I T H KATE W I N I N G E R )

12 Words from the Holy People: a case study in cultural

phenomenology 269
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Index 291