One Blood

Elisa Janine Sobo

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion
• One Blood offers a wealth of ethnographic material, skillfully using traditional Jamaican images and expressions to present a coherent and systematic ... Lees meer

Textual Bodies

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion
• In lively and accessible essays of literary criticism, this book approaches literature from classical times through the present with an emphasis on th... Lees meer

The Body, Self-Cultivation, and Ki-Energy

Yasuo Yuasa

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion
• An inquiry into ki-energy, its role within Eastern mind-body theory, and its implications for our contemporary Western understanding of the body. Lees meer

People of the Body

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion
• By shifting attention from the image of Jews as a textual community to the ways Jews understand and manage their bodies - for example, to their concer... Lees meer

Giving the Body Its Due

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion
• These essays bring together disciplinary understandings of what it is to be the bodies we are. In its own way, each essay calls into question certain ... Lees meer

Virginal Sexuality and Textuality in Victorian Literature

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion
• Lloyd Davis is in the Department of English at the University of Queensland, Australia. Lees meer

Giving the Body Its Due

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion
• Maxine Sheets-Johnstone is an independent scholar who most recently was Visiting Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Oregon. Lees meer

Tattoo, Torture, Mutilation, and Adornment

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion
• Contemporary theory across a wide range of disciplines denaturalizes the body and reveals it to be a social construction. Cultural practices which def... Lees meer

Textual Bodies

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion
• In lively and accessible essays of literary criticism, this book approaches literature from classical times through the present with an emphasis on th... Lees meer

Blind People

Shlomo Deshen

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion
• Blind People approaches disability from a fresh perspective: people with an unusual body are conceived of relativistically as a variant of humanity, m... Lees meer

The Life of Illness

Carol T Olson

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion
• The Life of Illness tells the story of one woman's courageous struggle with kidney failure, illness, and death. It is, however, a book about life, hop... Lees meer

Hadewijch and Her Sisters

John Giles Milhaven

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion
• Hadewijch, a thirteenth-century woman, describes her relationship with God as a mutual loving in which God and she affect each other personally and pr... Lees meer

The Life of Illness

Carol T Olson

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion
• The Life of Illness tells the story of one woman's courageous struggle with kidney failure, illness, and death. It is, however, a book about life, hop... Lees meer

Attunement Through the Body

Shigenori Nagatomo

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion
• Preparatory to restoring humaneness, Attunement Through the Body offers an innovative, philosophical model for overcoming mind-body dualism and its ne... Lees meer

Attunement Through Body

Shigenori Nagatomo

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Series, the Body in Culture, History, and Religion
• Shigenori Nagatomo is Assistant Professor at Temple University. He is co-author of Science and Comparative Philosophy , and co-translator of The Body:... Lees meer