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Book Synopsis Desvelando el cuerpo by : Josep Martí i Pérez
Download or read book Desvelando el cuerpo written by Josep Martí i Pérez and published by Editorial CSIC - CSIC Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recoge las ponencias del congreso internacional "El cuerpo: objeto y sujeto de las ciencias humanas y sociales", organizado por la Institución Milà i Fontanals del CSIC, celebrado en Barcelona en 2009
Download or read book African Realities written by Josep Martí and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-02 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: African Realities: Body, Culture and Social Tensions is the result of research anthropology work carried out in different African countries, mainly in Equatorial Guinea, but also in Senegal, Cabo Verde, Benin and Ethiopia. All the different chapters of this volume address a diversity of subjects related to relevant issues, such as gender, age, social class, ethnicity and coloniality, which are indispensable for understanding current African realities. Furthermore, all of these chapters investigate the importance people place on the body and, more concretely, the manner in which these people present it to others as a common denominator. After a brief theoretical introduction about the key concept of the book – the social presentation of the body – the contributors analyse the results of their own fieldwork, taking as a starting point the central role that the body plays in the relationship between the individual and society. As is clearly shown in this book, the social presentation of the body matters. From a general and structural point of view it matters because of its great significance within social logics, but it also matters because of its relevant role in situational dynamics of social interaction, and because of its close relationship with the emotional registers of individuals. If the issue related to the social presentation of the body has an undoubted interest for the academic milieu, it is also true that it has great social relevance and constitutes an undeniable political concern. The policies related to the social presentation of the body serve to mark, justify, maintain or even build hierarchical relationships of social order, at the level of class, gender, ethnicity or age. Throughout the book, and from the African studies perspective, different views are offered concerning how the body, being not only medium of expression, but at the same time a site of experience and construction of the self, appears in the centre of social tensions and is an object of strategy, control or resistance.
Book Synopsis Remaking the Human by : Alvaro Jarrín
Download or read book Remaking the Human written by Alvaro Jarrín and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2021-04-01 with total page 435 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The technological capacity to transform biology - repairing, reshaping and replacing body parts, chemicals and functions – is now part of our lives. Humanity is confronted with a variety of affordable and non-invasive 'enhancement technologies': anti-ageing medicine, aesthetic surgery, cognitive and sexual enhancers, lifestyle drugs, prosthetics and hormone supplements. This collection focuses on why people find these practices so seductive and provides ethnographic insights into people’s motives and aspirations as they embrace or reject enhancement technologies, which are closely entangled with negotiations over gender, class, age, nationality and ethnicity.
Book Synopsis Beyond Babel by : Larissa Brewer-García
Download or read book Beyond Babel written by Larissa Brewer-García and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-08-06 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In seventeenth-century Spanish America, black linguistic interpreters and spiritual intermediaries played key roles in the production of writings about black men and women. Focusing on the African diaspora in Peru and the southern continental Caribbean, Larissa Brewer-García uncovers long-ignored or lost archival materials describing the experiences of black Christians in the transatlantic slave trade and the colonial societies where they arrived. Brewer-García's analysis of these materials shows that black intermediaries bridged divisions among the populations implicated in the slave trade, exerting influence over colonial Spanish American writings and emerging racial hierarchies in the Atlantic world. The translated portrayals of blackness composed by these intermediaries stood in stark contrast to the pejorative stereotypes common in literary and legal texts of the period. Brewer-García reconstructs the context of those translations and traces the contours and consequences of their notions of blackness, which were characterized by physical beauty and spiritual virtue.
Book Synopsis In the Footsteps of Spanish Colonialism in Morocco and Equatorial Guinea by : Yolanda Aixelà Cabré
Download or read book In the Footsteps of Spanish Colonialism in Morocco and Equatorial Guinea written by Yolanda Aixelà Cabré and published by LIT Verlag Münster. This book was released on 2018-07 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The failure to manage cultural diversity in Morocco and Equatorial Guinea in an egalitarian manner has been linked to the hallmark of colonialism. First, because the policy practiced upon Arabs and Moroccan Imazighen since the French colonization comprised one of the reasonings employed to justify the pro-Arab policies developed after independence. Second, because the discriminatory policy deployed by Spain in Equatorial Guinea, was overridden by the installation of a dictatorship that established a system of Fang predominance. This book clarifies the degree to which the Spanish colonization is responsible for the present-day management of cultural diversity in both countries.
Download or read book Imagined Racial Laboratories written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2023-05-08 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Imagined Racial Laboratories reveals the watermarks of science in the dynamics of racialisation in Southeast Asia, during and after the colonial period. Bringing together a set of critical histories of race sciences, it illuminates the racialised dimensions of colony and nation in the region. It demonstrates that racialisation took — and continues to take — mutable and multiple forms that often connect, perhaps more than differentiate, colonial and national periods across a variety of Southeast Asian settings. Thus, imagined races have contributed as much to the invention of modern Southeast Asia as have other fabled imagined communities.
Book Synopsis Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song and Dance by : Walter Aaron Clark
Download or read book Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados in Music, Song and Dance written by Walter Aaron Clark and published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing. This book was released on 2019-06-20 with total page 523 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Transatlantic Malagueñas and Zapateados is an exploration of two fandango dances, recording the circulations of people, imagery, music, and dance across what were once the Spanish and Portuguese Empires. Although these dance-musics seem to be mirror images, the unbreachable space between them reflects the political fault-lines along which nineteenth-century musical populism and folkloric nationalism extend into present-day debates about globalization, immigration, neoliberalism, and neofascism. If malagueñas are a fantastic incarnation of Spanishness, caught like a fly in amber by their anachronistic references to a fraught imperial past, noisy and raucous zapateado dances cut toward the future. Inherently marked by European conventions of zapatos (shoes), zapateados are nonetheless shaped by Africanist and Native American footwork traditions. In these Afro-Indigenous mestizajes, not only are European aesthetic values reordered and resignified, but the Catholic catechism which indoctrinated the New World yields to alternate spiritual systems springing out of a culture of resistance to European domination.
Book Synopsis Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music by : Susan McClary
Download or read book Desire and Pleasure in Seventeenth-Century Music written by Susan McClary and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2012-03-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Susan McClary examines the mechanisms through which seventeenth-century musicians simulated extreme affective states--desire, divine rapture, and ecstatic pleasure. She demonstrates how every major genre of the period, from opera to religious music to instrumental pieces based on dances, was part of this striving for heightened passions by performers and listeners. ... McClary shows how musicians--whether working within the contexts of the Reformation or Counter-Reformation, Absolutists courts or commercial enterprises in Venice--were able to manipulate known procedures to produce radically new ways of experiencing time and the Self."--Dust jacket.
Book Synopsis The Passions of Peter Sellars by : Susan McClary
Download or read book The Passions of Peter Sellars written by Susan McClary and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2019-01-25 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Recognized as one of the most innovative and influential directors of our time, Peter Sellars has produced acclaimed—and often controversial—versions of many beloved operas and oratorios. He has also collaborated with several composers, including John C. Adams and Kaija Saariaho, to create challenging new operas. The Passions of Peter Sellars follows the development of his style, beginning with his interpretations of the Mozart-Da Ponte operas, proceeding to works for which he assembled the libretti and even the music, and concluding with his celebrated stagings of Bach’s passions with the Berlin Philharmonic. Many directors leave the musical aspects of opera entirely to the singers and conductor. Sellars, however, immerses himself in the score, and has created a distinctive visual vocabulary to embody musical gesture on stage, drawing on the energies of the music as he shapes characters, ensemble interaction, and large-scale dramatic trajectories. As a leading scholar of gender and music, and the history of opera, Susan McClary is ideally positioned to illuminate Sellars’s goal to address both the social tensions embodied in these operas as well as the spiritual dimensions of operatic performance. McClary considers Sellars’s productions of Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, Don Giovanni, and Così fan tutte; Handel’s Theodora; Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise; John C. Adams’s Nixon in China, The Death of Klinghoffer, El Niño, and Doctor Atomic; Kaija Saariaho’s L’amour de loin, La Passion de Simone, and Only the Sound Remains; Purcell’s The Indian Queen; and Bach’s passions of Saint Matthew and Saint John. Approaching Sellars’s theatrical strategies from a musicological perspective, McClary blends insights from theater, film, and literary scholarship to explore the work of one of the most brilliant living interpreters of opera.
Book Synopsis Religious Boundaries for Sex, Gender, and Corporeality by : Alexandra Cuffel
Download or read book Religious Boundaries for Sex, Gender, and Corporeality written by Alexandra Cuffel and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-09 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ambiguity concerning the interpretation of the ‘physical body’ in religious thought is not peculiar to any given religion, but is discernible in the scriptures, practices, and disciplines in most of the world’s major religious traditions. This book seeks to address the nuances of difference within and between religious traditions in the treatment and understanding of what constitutes the body as a carrier of religious meaning and/or vindication of doctrine. Bringing together an international team of contributors from different disciplines, this collection addresses the intersection of religion, gender, corporeality and/or sexuality in various Western and Eastern cultures. The book analyses instances when religious meaning is attributed to the human body’s physicality and its mechanics in contrast to imagined or metaphorical bodies. In other cases, it is shown that the body may function either as a vehicle or a hindrance for mystical knowledge. The chapters are arranged chronologically and across religious orientations, to offer a differentiated view on the body from a global perspective. This collection is an exciting exploration of religion and the human body. As such, it will be of great interest to scholars in religious studies, theology, Islamic studies, South Asian studies, history of religions and gender studies.
Download or read book Leading Ladies written by Yvonne Fuentes and published by LSU Press. This book was released on 2006-03-01 with total page 221 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Written by Hispanic and non-Hispanic scholars, these twelve essays -- six in English and six in Spanish -- disclose how over the past four centuries static and formulaic images of women in Hispanic art and literature have given way to lively and original portrayals. The leading ladies explored in this volume include women who are objects of the male gaze, women who gaze upon the male body, women who are characters, and women who are writers, painters, and filmmakers. The essayists offer a panorama that stimulates the senses and challenges assumptions as they reveal strategies used by both male and female writers and artists to unmask conventions, identify spaces, and remake paradigms.Marina Mayoral's introduction traces the representation of the beloved woman in Spanish lyric poetry from the Middle Ages to the present. The contributors and topics that follow include Amy Robinson on the silencing of female voices such as those of Cecilia Valdés and Carmen; Vilma Navarro-Daniels on the writer and historian Carmen Martín Gaite; Lynn Walford's analysis of Mario Vargas Llosa's leading ladies; Katherine Ford's exploration of Chicana writer Gloria Anzaldúa's Borderlands/La Frontera; Julia Carroll on Puerto Rican writer Giannina Braschi; George Thomas on the poetry of the seventeenth-century Mexican poet Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; Alison Tatum-Davis on Carmen Laforet's Nada; Mónica Jato's examination of three female characters from Alfonso Sastre's trilogy Los crímenes extraños; Caryn Connelly on the collaborations of Mexican scriptwriter Paz Alicia Garcíadiego and film director Arturo Ripstein; Sharon Keefe Ugalde on cinema gender referents in the work of certain Spanish women poets; Carmen García de la Rasilla's study of female surrealist artists; and Mayte de Lama on three short-story characters of the fiction writer Marina Mayoral.Covering numerous genres, reaching across three continents, and using a variety of critical strategies, Leading Ladies presents a dazzling array of artistic endeavors in which women are of central importance.
Book Synopsis Implications of the image by : Angélica Aguirre
Download or read book Implications of the image written by Angélica Aguirre and published by UNAM. This book was released on 2008 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exhibition catalogue presents a series of works representatives of what has been the process of visual arts from the second half of the twentieth century to the present. It presents a collection where they are present more than seventy artists born between the decades of 30 and 50: as Gordon Matta-Clark, Donald Judd, Joseph Kosuth, Dan Flavin, Lazslo Moholy-Nagy, Matthew Barney, Thomas Ruff, Wolfgang Tillmans, Helio Oiticica, Douglas Gordon, Vanessa Beecroft, Francis Alys, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Santiago Sierra, Teresa Margolles, Gabriel Orozco among others, whose works make up this selection of high quality, representativeness and diversity of searches, finds and creative proposals. The common thread is the image, the starting point and destination of each of the works are collected in this selection: Drawing, painting, sculpture, installations, video art, and prominently, picture from several strands from the documentary to which explores the meaning and scope of the creative process.
Book Synopsis Más allá de lasmemorias póstumas de Brás Cubas- Develando Machado de Assis by : MAX EDITORIAL
Download or read book Más allá de lasmemorias póstumas de Brás Cubas- Develando Machado de Assis written by MAX EDITORIAL and published by Max Editorial. This book was released on 2024-06-05 with total page 129 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Memórias Póstumas de Brás Cubas" es una obra maestra de la literatura brasileña, escrita por Machado de Assis en 1881. La novela, narrada por un fallecido, se caracteriza por su tono irónico y pesimista. Brás Cubas, el protagonista, narra sus recuerdos y reflexiones después de la muerte, explorando temas como la inutilidad de la vida, la hipocresía de la sociedad y la inevitabilidad de la muerte. Este libro electrónico pretende contrarrestar las ideas expuestas por Machado de Assis, ofreciendo una visión más optimista y humanista de la vida y las relaciones humanas. La elección de un narrador fallecido es, en sí misma, una innovación literaria que permite a Machado de Assis explorar la condición humana desde una perspectiva única. Liberado de las convenciones sociales y las preocupaciones mundanas, Brás Cubas relata su vida con irónico desapego, exponiendo las debilidades y contradicciones de los vivos. Su mirada crítica a la sociedad del siglo XIX es ácida y reveladora, denunciando los fracasos morales y las hipocresías de los individuos que componen el tejido social. En este contexto, la inutilidad de la vida emerge como un tema central. Brás Cubas, al revisar sus experiencias, muchas veces concluye que sus esfuerzos y ambiciones fueron en vano. La búsqueda incesante de placer, poder y reconocimiento se presenta como inútil y efímera. Esta visión pesimista refleja la incredulidad del narrador en la capacidad humana de encontrar un significado duradero o la verdadera felicidad en medio de las vicisitudes de la existencia. Además, la hipocresía de la sociedad queda claramente expuesta. Brás Cubas describe una élite preocupada por las apariencias, donde las virtudes proclamadas públicamente a menudo se contradicen con acciones egoístas y egoístas. La moralidad es a menudo una fachada y se revela que la verdadera motivación de las personas es el beneficio propio. Esta crítica social es una marca registrada de la obra de Machado de Assis, que, con su ingenio, desafía a los lectores a cuestionar valores y comportamientos aceptados sin reflexión. La inevitabilidad de la muerte, finalmente, es un tema que impregna toda la novela. La muerte de Brás Cubas es el punto de partida de la narración, y su condición de fallecido-narrador subraya la certeza de que todos los esfuerzos humanos terminan en la misma conclusión inevitable. La muerte nivela todas las distinciones sociales y hace que todos los logros mundanos sean irrelevantes. Este reconocimiento de la fugacidad de la vida le da a la novela un tono melancólico y filosófico, que lleva al lector a reflexionar sobre su propia mortalidad. Sin embargo, este libro electrónico propone una lectura diferente. Aunque "Memorias póstumas de Brás Cubas" presenta una visión desalentadora de la vida y la naturaleza humana, creemos que es posible encontrar una perspectiva más optimista y humanista sobre las experiencias y relaciones humanas. La vida, con todas sus imperfecciones y desafíos, también está llena de momentos de belleza, bondad y significado. Las relaciones humanas, incluso marcadas por fracasos, pueden ser fuentes de apoyo, amor y crecimiento mutuo. A través de este trabajo buscamos explorar cómo la resiliencia, la empatía y la búsqueda de un propósito pueden contrarrestar el pesimismo de Brás Cubas. Creemos que, a pesar de las adversidades, la vida ofrece oportunidades para el desarrollo personal y la construcción de una sociedad más justa y compasiva. Invitamos al lector a reflexionar sobre estas posibilidades y descubrir una aproximación más positiva y esperanzadora a la condición humana. Bienvenidos a este viaje de redescubrimiento y reinterpretación de las "Memorias Póstumas de Brás Cubas". Que esta lectura inspire nuevos pensamientos y sentimientos, promoviendo una visión más equilibrada y optimista de la vida y las relaciones humanas.
Book Synopsis El Manzano Encantado De La Niña by : Alidio Carrasco
Download or read book El Manzano Encantado De La Niña written by Alidio Carrasco and published by Lulu.com. This book was released on with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Signs of Humanity / L’homme et ses signes by : Gérard Deledalle
Download or read book Signs of Humanity / L’homme et ses signes written by Gérard Deledalle and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2019-05-20 with total page 1794 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No detailed description available for "Signs of Humanity / L'homme et ses signes".
Book Synopsis The Book of Emma by : Marie-Celie Agnant
Download or read book The Book of Emma written by Marie-Celie Agnant and published by Insomniac Press. This book was released on 2009-11-08 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One of the biggest stumbling blocks we hit when setting out to make our dreams come true is appreciating what is going well. Most of us have an unfortunate tendency to dwell on the problems rather than on the good things in our lives ... and then we wonder why things just seem to keep getting worse instead of better. In The Power of Appreciation in Everyday Life, psychologist Noelle Nelson explains how you can achieve success in every area of your life through transforming your beliefs with appreciation.
Book Synopsis La desilusión de la imagen by : Víctor Silva Echeto
Download or read book La desilusión de la imagen written by Víctor Silva Echeto and published by Editorial GEDISA. This book was released on 2016-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: La desilusión de la imagen. Arqueología, cuerpo(s) y mirada(s), plantea que las imágenes son vínculos entre distintas épocas y culturas, son síntomas e indicios que dejan huellas en el imaginario cultural. Son la elegíaca memoria como musa que deambula por los tiempos pero fuera de los tiempos (genealogía) o, en otros términos, las imágenes son Mnemosyne, es decir, la musa de todas las musas. Una arqueología de la imagen, implica considerar a la imagen desde la intermedialidad (entre-medios), los cuerpos y las miradas. Concebirla desde una crítica de la cultura en una contemporaneidad atravesada por la crisis. La pregunta ¿qué son las imágenes? que se formula desde la debilidad de cierta inocencia de la escritura, adquiere toda su dimensión desde el momento en que se confunde imagen con visualidad o imagen con medios audiovisuales, dejando por el camino todos los restos de imágenes que no son visuales. Aún más, ese debate se torna más complejo, cuando en su trasfondo está la «memoria» del holocausto (o de los holocaustos); las imágenes de la crisis política, económica y social o los miles de refugiados, en la paradigmática imagen de un niño muerto en la playa, deambulando por geografías europeas. La imagen es, en efecto, «nómada», viaja por territorios y culturas. Entonces, la inocencia de la pregunta se transforma en la imagen frágil de los que no tienen imagen. «La propuesta de Víctor Silva Echeto, es una de las mejor articuladas que conozco para pensar posibles alternativas a la situación de impasse a que parece abocarnos el mundo contemporáneo.» JENARO TALENS (escritor).
