The Body As A Medium Of Expression
Condition: SECONDHAND
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Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
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What does it mean to speak without words — to let skin, muscle, gesture, and movement carry the full weight of human meaning? The Body as a Medium of Expression is a landmark interdisciplinary anthology that brings together essays from leading scholars, artists, and theorists to examine the human body not merely as a biological entity, but as a primary vehicle of communication, ritual, and art. Drawing from anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, dance, theatre, and the visual arts, the collection presents a sweeping investigation into how cultures across time and geography have encoded identity, emotion, and social order into the physical self. Edited by Jonathan Benthall and Ted Polhemus, this volume stands as a foundational text in the emerging field of body studies, arriving at a pivotal moment when semiotics, structuralism, and performance theory were reshaping the humanities. The contributors illuminate the body's role in everything from religious ceremony to avant-garde performance, arguing that non-verbal communication is not a supplement to language but a sophisticated system in its own right. Scholarly yet accessible, it challenges the reader to reconsider every gesture, posture, and adornment as a charged cultural statement — raising the provocative question of whether the body itself is the most honest language we have ever possessed.
Author: Jonathan Benthall And Ted Polhemus
Format: Paperback
Genre: Anthropology
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
What does it mean to speak without words — to let skin, muscle, gesture, and movement carry the full weight of human meaning? The Body as a Medium of Expression is a landmark interdisciplinary anthology that brings together essays from leading scholars, artists, and theorists to examine the human body not merely as a biological entity, but as a primary vehicle of communication, ritual, and art. Drawing from anthropology, philosophy, linguistics, dance, theatre, and the visual arts, the collection presents a sweeping investigation into how cultures across time and geography have encoded identity, emotion, and social order into the physical self. Edited by Jonathan Benthall and Ted Polhemus, this volume stands as a foundational text in the emerging field of body studies, arriving at a pivotal moment when semiotics, structuralism, and performance theory were reshaping the humanities. The contributors illuminate the body's role in everything from religious ceremony to avant-garde performance, arguing that non-verbal communication is not a supplement to language but a sophisticated system in its own right. Scholarly yet accessible, it challenges the reader to reconsider every gesture, posture, and adornment as a charged cultural statement — raising the provocative question of whether the body itself is the most honest language we have ever possessed.