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Embodied Collective Memory - The Making and Unmaking of Human Nature (Paperback)
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Embodied Collective Memory - The Making and Unmaking of Human Nature (Paperback)
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The human body is not a given fact; it is not, as Descartes
believed, a "machine made up of flesh and bones." The body is
acquired, achieved, and learned. It is thus full of mimetic and
mnemonic implications. The body remembers, and it does so in
collectively relevant ways. Gestures, corporeal and phonetic
rhythms, affective idioms, and emotional styles - perceptual,
sensorial, motoric, and affective schemata - are all largely
learned in shared social contexts. These aspects of the embodied
experience are often consigned to habit, to bodily automatisms, and
to corporeal memories that reflect aspects of culture. But if the
body reflects certain aspects of culture that press to become
naturalized and organically attached to social actors, it also
resists these kinds of cultural pressures. These adaptive and
resistive dynamics, as this book shows, are not without
consequences for individuals and groups. These processes can result
in both advantages and disadvantages for social actors. They can
take us toward certain futures while foreclosing others. It is
therefore necessary to understand how, why, and to what extent
corporeal memories are constructed but also resisted, modified, or
created anew.
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