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Body Art
Brian Brown, Virginia Kuulei Berndt
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R572
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Body art, especially tattoos and piercings, has enjoyed an
explosion of interest in recent years. However, the response of
many health professionals and researchers to this phenomenon is
often negative, as body art continues to be associated with issues
ranging from ill mental health to offending behaviors. Arguing for
a reappraisal of the diverse range of practices that fall under
this heading, Brian Brown and Virginia Kuulei Berndt reconsider
body art as an underappreciated yet accessible source for mental
and physical wellbeing. How, they ask, does body art open up new
sources of community, sociality, and aesthetics? How is it used for
the reclamation of one’s body, as a marker of success or
accomplishment, or for building friendships? How does participation
in these practices impact the health and wellbeing of body artists
themselves? Providing a radical rethink that integrates tattoos and
other body modifications within health, wellbeing, and positive
psychology, Body Art disrupts the narrative of stigmatisation that
so often surrounds these practices to welcome a broader discussion
of the benefits they can offer.
This is Brian Brown's personal diary of his rise from Belisha Boy
signalman up to the giddy heights of 2nd Lieutenant in the Royal
Corps of Signals between 1939 until 1945. Brian had a varied career
in the Army including 31/2 years as a Prisoner of War after being
ordered by CIC Percival to surrender to the Japanese at the fall of
Singapore on 15th February 1942. The Diary takes Brian from
Singapore to PamPong to work on building the new spur of railway
which extended to Rangoon to join up with the existing railway. On
the journey, in spite of the deprivation of hunger, illness &
fatigue which accumulated from being held prisoner in appalling
conditions, Brian worked with Indian elephants, herded cattle and
ate any stray pigs which crossed his path - these experiences
contributed to his decision to become a farmer later in life.
This is one of the first books to comprehensively explore
representations of madness in postwar British and American Fiction.
The five authors come from diverse backgrounds - literary studies,
social psychology, medical psychiatry and psychiatric nursing - and
as such the book's perspectives are informed through several
discourses, making it a unique co-authored text in the discipline
of Health Humanities. The book looks at representations of madness
in a range of texts by postwar writers (such as Ken Kesey, Marge
Piercy, Patrick McGrath, Leslie Marmon Silko, William Golding,
Patrick Gale, William Burroughs and J.G. Ballard, to name a few),
and explores the ways in which these representations help to shape
public perceptions and experiences of mental disorder.
This book is relevant to both those with interests in literary
studies and a vital read for psychiatric clinicians and
professionals who are interested in how literature can inform and
enhance clinical practices.
The health humanities is a rapidly rising field, advancing an
inclusive, democratizing, activist, applied, critical, and
culturally diverse approach to delivering health and well-being
through the arts and humanities. It has generated new kinds of
interdisciplinary research, knowledge, and communities of practice
globally. It has also acted to bring greater coherence and
political force to contributions across a range of related
disciplines and traditions. In this volume, a formidable set of
authors explore the history, current state, and future of the
health humanities, in particular how its vision of the arts and
humanities: Promotes creative public health. Opens new routes to
health and well-being. Informs and drives better health care.
Interrogates relationships between ill health and social equality.
Develops humanist theory in relation to health and social care
practice. Foregrounds cultural difference as a resource for
positive change in society. Tests the humanity of an increasingly
globalized health-care system. Looks to overcome structural and
process obstacles to cross-disciplinary ventures. Champions
co-construction, co-design, and mutuality in solving health and
well-being challenges. Showcases less familiar, prominent, or
celebrated creative practices. Includes multiple perspectives on
the value and health benefits of the arts and humanities not
limited to or dominated by medicine. Divided into two main
sections, the Companion looks at "Reflections and Critical
Perspectives," offering current thinking and definitions within
health humanities, and "Applications," comprising a wide selection
of applied arts and humanities practices from comedy, writing, and
dancing to yoga, cooking, and horticultural display.
For centuries THE I CHING OR BOOK OF CHANGES has been consulted for
wise advice. Its enduring popularity lies in the lessons it teaches
about how to attain life's greatest rewards - prosperity,
understanding and peace of mind. On the surface, it is merely a
book that has survived for thousands of years in many different
forms. Underneath, however, THE I CHING is a living breathing
oracle, a patient and all-seeing teacher who can be relied upon for
flawless advice at every turning point in our lives. Briant Browne
Walker's highly accessible translation of THE I CHING OR BOOK OF
CHANGES allows you to make the wisdom of the ancient Chinese sages
your own. Whether you need specific advice or general guidance, THE
I CHING will help to promote success and good fortune and impart
balance and perspective to your life.
"This book is an attempt to put a collection of diamond cutting
tools in the pocket of anyone who seriously wants to make use of
them to realize enlightenment, the Self, Big Mind." from the
Introduction Wei wu wei, or "doing non-doing," is the central
liberating idea of Zen, Ch'an, Taoism, and -- under whatever name
-- most every other enlightenment tradition in the world. From
decades of reading in them all, Brian Browne Walker, author of
beloved translations of the I Ching, Tao te Ching, Hua hu Ching,
and Art of War, has formulated a subtle, calming set of teachings
designed to usher the practitioner through the back door of
realization. That door, the ancients teach us, is always left ajar.
Designed to be read in an ordinary manner or consulted as an oracle
in the fashion of the I Ching, Wei wu Wei Ching is also available
as an app for iPhone, iPad, and all Android phones and tablets via
the store at www.brianbrownewalker.com. In this tradition of wei wu
wei, we don't have a thing to offer you. That is why you can rely
upon it for everything.
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Shadow Valley (Paperback)
Alan Brown, Brian Brown
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R497
R438
Discovery Miles 4 380
Save R59 (12%)
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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This Is A New Release Of The Original 1921 Edition.
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