On the Corposphere: Anthroposemiotics of the Body

José Enrique Finol

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On the Corposphere

Anthroposemiotics of the Body

José Enrique Finol

Language: English

Published/Copyright: 2021

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Volume 33 | Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]

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The book presents and analyzes some of the most important issues related to the body seen as a rich and complex anthropological and semiotic object, capable of playing a decisive role in the meaning making processes of cultural and social life. The analysis presented in this book opens a whole set of new venues for the study of body performances and representations, and shows how the embodiment of social and cultural life shape our world. In all of its relationships and in itself, our body works in a sort of corposphere, which is, in turn, part of the semiosphere, defined by Lotman as a continuum occupied by different types of semiotic formations. It is from/in/by the body that all semiosis begins and ends; it is in its presence and absence, in its being and in its presentation amidst the lived situational life where we might discover and shape the senses of the world. Many different academic fields will find in this book deep insights about how the body is at the center of cultural and social processes.

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José Enrique Finol, Universidad del Zulia, Maracaibo Venezuela.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	I
Foreword Publicly Available Download PDF	IX
Acknowledgements Publicly Available Download PDF	XI
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	XIII
Introduction: The forgotten body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	1
Chapter I The knowledge of the body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	3
Chapter II The Corposphere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	16
Chapter III Social imaginaries, borders, and limits of the semiotics of the body Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	70
Chapter IV Body modalities: Space and movement, rituals and eroticism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	93
Chapter V Body, aesthetics, and hedonism Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	138
Chapter VI Body and ritual: The structure of the gesture in public ceremonies Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	161
Chapter VII Myth, body, and beauty: Rituals of the Misses Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	170
Chapter VIII Rite and discourse: Body, disease, and death in two funeral texts Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	189
Chapter IX “Your Body is the Message” Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	211
Chapter X Body and Identity: Space, places, and territories Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	231
References Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	241
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed	257

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eBook published on:

June 8, 2021

eBook ISBN:

9783110696899

Hardcover published on:

June 8, 2021

Hardcover ISBN:

9783110696851

Pages and Images/Illustrations in book

Front matter:

17

Main content:

259

Illustrations:

15

Coloured Illustrations:

29

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110696899

eBook ISBN: 9783110696899

Hardcover ISBN: 9783110696851

Keywords for this book

Semiotics; Body; Anthropology; Rites

Audience(s) for this book

Researchers, Students in Semiotics, Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy, Art Studies, Cultural Studies, Discourse Analysis

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