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The spell of the sensuous
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David Abram |
[In this book, the author] draws on sources as diverse as the philosophy of Merleau-Ponty, Balinese shamanism, Apache storytelling, and his own experience as an accomplished sleight-of-hand magician … |
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The body of the conquistador
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Rebecca Earle |
"This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation and the bodily experience of eating. It reveals the importance of food to the colonial project in Spanish Ame… |
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Shaping humanity
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John Gurche |
What did earlier humans really look like? What was life like for them, millions of years ago? How do we know? In this book, internationally renowned paleo-artist John Gurche describes the extraordina… |
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Boys' Bodies
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Michael Atkinson,Michael Kehler |
"The chapters in this edited collection examine how the culture of masculinity intersects with issues of health, homophobia, and the suppression and silencing of anxieties about body image among men … |
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Bodies
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Susie Orbach |
The body is no longer a given and to possess a flawless one has become the ambition of millions around the world. The author has come to realise that the way we view our bodies is the mirror of how w… |
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Fragmentation and Redemption
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Caroline Walker Bynum |
*Fragmentation and Redemption* is first of all about bodies and the relationship of part to whole in the high Middle Ages, a period in which the overcoming of partition and putrefaction was the very … |
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