Traversing : Embodied Lifeworlds in the Czech Republic /

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"Susanna Trnka's book is about ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world and the kinds of persons we become as a result, a process she refers to as traversing. Drawing from philosophical concepts developed by two continental philosophers, Martin Heidegger and Jan Patočka,...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Trnka, Susanna (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2020.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Manners and customs.
Ethnology > Philosophy.
Ethnology.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural
Ethnologie > Philosophie.
Ethnologie > Republique tcheque.
Ethnology > Czech Republic.
Czech Republic.
Czech Republic > Social life and customs.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : traversing : bodies, technologies, and culture in the making of (Czech) lives
  • Footsteps through the city : social justice in its multiplicity
  • Digital dwelling : the everyday freedoms of technology-use
  • Ballroom dance and other technologies of sexuality and desire
  • The new Europeans : 21st century families as sites for self-realization
  • Making moods : food and drink as collective acts of sustenance, pleasure and dissolution
  • Reconnection : between the power lines and the stars.

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