On the Corposphere: Anthroposemiotics of the Body

José Enrique Finol

Published by De Gruyter Mouton 2021

On the Corposphere

Anthroposemiotics of the Body

José Enrique Finol

Volume 33 in the series Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC]

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110696899

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About this book

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.

Author information

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

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: De Gruyter Mouton
Audience: Researchers, Students in Semiotics, Anthropology, Sociology, Philosophy, Art Studies, Cultural Studies, Discourse Analysis
Pages
- Front matter: 17
- Main content: 259
Illustrations
- Illustrations: 15
- Coloured Illustrations: 29
Keywords: Semiotics; Body; Anthropology; Rites

eBook

Published: June 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110696899

Hardcover

Published: June 8, 2021
ISBN: 9783110696851