Foreign Bodies : Performance, Art, and Symbolic Anthropology / A. David Napier.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Napier, A. David, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Art--Philosophy.

Art.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (266 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Berkeley, California : University of California Press, [1992]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Illustrations

Introduction: Symbolic Imagination

1. Anonymity and "The Arts Called Primitive"

2. Environment for an Animated Memory

3. Greek Art and Greek Anthropology: Orienting the Perseus-Gorgon Myth

4. Bernini's Anthropology: A Key to the Piazza San Pietro

5. Culture as Self: The Stranger Within

Epilogue: A Social Theory of the Person

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9780520309272

0520309278

OCLC:

1198929476