اجساد خارجی: اجرا، هنر و انسان‌شناسی نمادین

In five wide-ranging essays, A. David Napier explores the ways in which the foreign becomes literally and metaphorically embodied as a part of cultural identity rather than being seen as something outside it. Pre-classical Greece, Baroque Italy, and Western postmodernism are among the artistic domains Napier considers, while the symbolic terrain ranges from Balinese cosmography to body symbolism in biomedicine. Cover......Page 1 Flap......Page 2 Title......Page 4 Copyright......Page 5 Contents......Page 8 Illustrations......Page 9 Introduction: Symbolic Imagination......Page 13 Anonymity and "The Arts Called Primitive"......Page 28 Environment for an animated memory......Page 61 Greek art and Greek anthropology: Orienting the Perseus-Gorgon myth......Page 104 Bernini's anthropology: A key to the Piazza San Pietro......Page 139 Plates......Page 166 Culture as self: the stranger within......Page 174 Without strangers within......Page 211 Immunology and cognition......Page 219 Selective dissociation: A nonsolipsistic theory of personhood......Page 225 Bibliography......Page 235 Index......Page 250 Back flap......Page 258 Back cover......Page 259 An understanding of what is foreign is based on a radical differentiation between the self and that which we call the "other". Napier explores the ways in which the foreign becomes literally and metaphorically embodied as a part of one's cultural identity rather than as something outside of it. This collection of essays explores the ways in which the foreign becomes literally and metaphorically embodied as part of cultural identity rather than being seen as something outside it.