body

embodiment

healing

somatic mode of attention

nationality

American

occupation / innovator as

anthropologist

university professor

UC San Diego

innovator in the field of

globalization

medical anthropology

social change

psychological anthropology

anthropology of the body

is not only an object to be studied in relation to culture. It is also to be considered the existential grounds of culture.

the body is not only an object to be studied in relation to culture, but is to be considered the subject of culture (Csordas 1990: 5).

is a methodological standpoint in which bodily experience is understood to be the existential ground of culture and self. That is, the body is not as an object that is good to think, but as a subject that is necessary to be.

a methodological standpoint in which bodily experience is understood to be the existential ground of culture and self' (1994: 269) . . . Csdoras, Thomas Corn, Munn, Nancy Pandolfi, . . a 'as a paradigm or methodological orientation requires that the body be understood as the existential ground of culture-not as an object that is 'good to think,' but as a subject that is 'necessary to be' . . . .recognizes embodiment as the existential condition in which culture and self are grounded (Corn 1990... Csordas 1990... Devisch and Gailly 1985... Frank 1986... Jackson 1989... Munn 1986... Ots 1991, in press... Pandolfi 1990). They tend to take the 'lived body' as a methodological starting point rather than consider the body as an object of study.(Csordas 1993) Csordas, Thomas. 'Somatic Modes of Attention.' Cultural Anthropology 8, no. 2 (1993): 135-156.

is an indeterminate methodological field defined by perceptual experience and by mode of presence and engagement in the world.

an indeterminate methodological field defined by perceptual experience and by mode of presence and engagement in the world' (1999:145).

is not the elimination of disease but the transformation of a person, a self that is a bodily being.

Healing is not the elimination of disease but the transformation of a person, a self that is a bodily being' (Csordas 2002:4).

is a culturally elaborated way of attending to and with one's body in surroundings that included the embodied presence of others.

culturally elaborated ways of attending to and with one's body in surroundings that included the embodied presence of others' (Csordas 1993) Csordas, Thomas. 'Somatic Modes of Attention.' Cultural Anthropology 8, no. 2 (1993): 135-156.

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