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‘Mind the Gaps’: Exploring Regional and Gender Patterns in Threats to Ethiopian Adolescents’ Bodily Integrity
Spurred by international commitments to address age- and gender-based violence, this article uses a capabilities framework to address an important...
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Gendered embodiment and bodily change: how mastectomy and pregnancy bloggers perceive and resolve physical disruptions
There are times when our bodies change in unexpected or undesirable ways, challenging our sense of self. Medical sociologists have largely discussed...
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Smoke and Spirit: Exploring Bodily and Sensual Concerns at Early Harvard College
Identity, as a central concept in contemporary historical archaeology theory, has been enlivened by recent scholarship that is increasingly mindful...
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Telling Bodily Attitudes
This chapter returns to the theme of the body, but this time from the point of view of gestures and postures liable to express hierarchies during...
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Intimate strangers: theorizing bodily knowledge in shared housing
What does it mean to know and relate to others in a domestic context characterized by physical, but not necessarily emotional, proximity? This...
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Immersion: Immersivity, Narrativity, and Bodily Affect in Theme Parks
Theme parks are distinct from other immersive media in that the mediated space and the space of reception are one and the same. This does not...
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Spiritual Disharmonies Among the Emberá Dobida: Territorial, Bodily, and Linguistic Suffering
Suicide in children and young people from indigenous peoples of Latin America has increased progressively. Social, political, cultural, and spiritual...
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Metis and Cixous: Cunning Resistance, Bodily Intelligence and Allies
In this chapter, I will reflect on my autoethnographical journey over the past two decades from my early encounters with Cixous to my discovery of...
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Experience
For the ponytail to evoke meaningful experience, its materiality must be enmeshed in culture. Its material texture—touch and sight—must hold public...
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Material Sense: Perceptual Experience in Stone and Mineral Selection for Tool-Making
Enactivism advocates for the dynamic character of human perception, regarding it as a multidirectional network comprising human presence and...
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U2’s (2009–2011) ‘360°’ tour: A Source and Experience of Enchantment
This paper examines the concept of enchantment in the context of U2’s (2009–2011) ‘360°’ tour. It contributes to leisure and sociology studies by...
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Infertility as Trauma: Understanding the Lived Experience of Involuntary Childlessness
Infertility, to those who are affected by it, is much more than whether one manages (or not) to have a child: it can be a traumatizing experience....
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Bodily Transformation and Sacralization: Human Sacrifice in Southwestern Mesoamerica
My intention in this contribution is to use the structural model of human sacrifice proposed by Henri Hubert and Marcel Mauss (1964 [1898]) in order...
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Experience and Experiential Extremism
All the discussions so far are essentially based on an understanding of experience, because they have been experienced and made narratable in their...
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A theory of intersubjectivity: experience, interaction and the anchoring of meaning
Based on the work of Alfred Schutz, this article develops a theory of intersubjectivity—one of the basic building blocks of social experience—and...
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Reflections on the American Experience in Archaeological Perspective Book Series
For over five decades historical archaeologists conducting research in the United States have produced important scholarship detailing how the...
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Bodily Myth and the Rottenness of Fudanshi in Singapore
Research on boys’ love (BL), a genre of manga centring male–male homoerotica originally from Japan, has gained traction in recent years among...
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The Multiplicities of Immersed Experience
How we conceptualize the body shapes the ways we understand those who lived in the past. An osteobiography characterizes a person’s life story as an...
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The digital power of the tower: digital communication technologies and dwelling experience in residential large urban developments
Residential large urban developments are the dominant mode of housing development in many cities around the world. They introduce new technologies to...
