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Author Narváez, Rafael F

Title Embodied Collective Memory : the Making and Unmaking of Human Nature
Published University Press of America, 2012

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Description 1 online resource
Contents Acknowledgments; Introduction; 1 The French Sociological Tradition; 2 Pierre Bourdieu; 3 Somatic Compliance, Somatic Deviance; 4 Symbolic Violence vs. Creativity; 5 Resistive Mechanisms (Phylogeny); 6 Basic Instincts: Eros and Thanatos; 7 The Subject (Ontogeny); 8 Biology and Meaning (Phylogeny); 9 Biology and Meaning (Ontogeny); 10 Embodying the Past and Embodying the Future; 11 An Example of Embodied Collective Memory: Race; 12 Layers of ECMs; 13 External Features of ECMs; 14 Internal Features of ECMs; 15 Perceptual Collective Memory: The Eye; 16 The Role of Institutions
Appendix: Psychoanalysis as a "Failed Science"References; Index
Summary The human body is not a given fact-it is acquired, achieved, and learned. The body remembers, and it does so in collectively relevant ways. This book discusses how, why, and to what extent corporeal memories are constructed but also resisted, modified, or created anew
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Body language.
Social psychology.
Kinesics
Psychology, Social
social psychology.
LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES -- Communication Studies.
Body language
Social psychology
Form Electronic book
ISBN 1299401910
9781299401914
9780761858805
0761858806