Chapter VIII Rite and discourse: Body, disease, and death in two funeral texts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword IX
3. Acknowledgements XI
4. Contents XIII
5. Introduction: The forgotten body 1
6. Chapter I The knowledge of the body 3
7. Chapter II The Corposphere 16
8. Chapter III Social imaginaries, borders, and limits of the semiotics of the body 70
9. Chapter IV Body modalities: Space and movement, rituals and eroticism 93
10. Chapter V Body, aesthetics, and hedonism 138
11. Chapter VI Body and ritual: The structure of the gesture in public ceremonies 161
12. Chapter VII Myth, body, and beauty: Rituals of the Misses 170
13. Chapter VIII Rite and discourse: Body, disease, and death in two funeral texts 189
14. Chapter IX “Your Body is the Message” 211
15. Chapter X Body and Identity: Space, places, and territories 231
16. References 241
17. Index 257