Susanna Trnka

Traversing (eBook, ePUB)

Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech Republic

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Traversing is about our ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world and how they shape the kinds of people we become. Drawing from concepts developed by two phenomenological philosophers, Martin Heidegger and Jan Patocka, and putting them in conversation with ethnographic analysis of the lives of contemporary Czechs, Susanna Trnka examines how embodiment is crucial for understanding our being-in-the-world.

In particular, Traversing scrutinizes three kinds of movements we make as embodied actors in the world: how we move through time and space, be it by walking along city streets, gliding across the dance floor, or clicking our way through digital landscapes; how we move toward and away from one another, as erotic partners, family members, or fearful, ethnic "others"; and how we move toward ourselves and the earth we live on.

Above all, Traversing focuses on tracing the ways in which the body and motion are fundamental to our lived experience of the world, so we can develop a better understanding of the empirical details of Czech society and what they can reveal to us about the human condition.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cornell University Press
• Seitenzahl: 222
• Erscheinungstermin: 15. Mai 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781501749230
• Artikelnr.: 59177770

Autorenporträt

Susanna Trnka is a social and medical anthropologist at the University of Auckland. Her previous books include One Blue Child and Competing Responsibilities.