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Showing 1 to 20 of 213 for “"corporeal"”.
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Corporeal routes: climbing towards culture
… propose a model of spatial knowledge anchored in corporeal simulation rather than mental representation, and demonstrate the necessity of this conceptual shift by arguing that one's perception of the environment proceeds from the culturally inscribed and extended body, just as the body is …
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On body dumps : the rhetorics of corporeal narcoterrorism
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Bath house : corporeal consciousness & the permeability of space
New York City. Row Houses, Two. Dense Urban Fabric. Water. Work, Work, Work. Light. Lower East Side. Screens, 25' x 200' long. Comfort.
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Corporeal Archives of HIV/AIDS: The Performance of Relation
<p><em>Corporeal Archives of HIV/AIDS: The Performance of Relation</em>, explores how choreographers and theater artists in the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic in New York City used time and space to involve their audiences experientially in the project of grieving and rebuilding in the midst …
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Corporeal Colonialism: Medicine, Reproduction, and Race in Colonial Korea
This dissertation makes a significant contribution to the scholarly literature in both cultural and social studies of science in Korea and the global history of colonialism, science, and gender. Foremost, my work demonstrates the colonial origin of Western medical intervention in the physical and …
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Trans-corporeal bodybuilding: an exploration of the trans-corporeal relations between South African competitive male bodybuilders and their more-than-human world(s)
… doing so, the study drew on Stacy Alaimo’s trans-corporeality: a radically relational (re)figuration of Hu/Man(ist) subjectivity and embodiment which (re)imagines the corporeal substance of “the human” as be(com)ing co-constituted through/with/across the material relations and forces of the …
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Consuming Mutilation : Affectivity and Corporeal Transgression on Stage and Screen.
… be applied to horror, I propose a new affective corporeal model that accounts for the impact of recent films such as Saw (James Wan, 2004) and Hostel (Eli Roth, 2005). I also explore how such a theoretical approach exceeds cognitivism in favour of an understanding of the genre founded on …
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CORPOREAL ANXIETY: THE VISUAL ARGUMENTATION OF RECENT ANTI-TOBACCO ADVERTISEMENTS
Tobacco usage is the leading contributor to preventable death in the United States, yet maintains a strong appeal to many demographics, due to decades of massive advertising expenditures from the tobacco industry and the ubiquitous presence of cigarettes in American culture. Two of the latest …
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Britannia's Bodies: Corporeal Representation in the Art of Roman Britain
This thesis gives some much-needed attention to the art of Rome’s most North-Westerly province, the aim being to bring it into a conversation of equals with that of the rest of the Roman world. There have long been questions about how to deal with the art of Roman Britain and that of other Roman …
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Natural phenomena and the senses : linking memory and corporeal experience
… and personal memory, we must look to total corporeal experience of phenomena in specific places. Slowing our physical actions, we allow all of our senses to engage the world around, and only then do we become more aware of our body and experience in that world. Ultimately, in better …
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Corporeal Modification In The Hollywood Musical: New Paradigms For Genre Analysis
<p>This project explores the trend of bodily and identity modification in the contemporary Hollywood musical and calls for a re-reading of the genre away from the standard classification, that of one strictly imbued with wistful nostalgia and heteronormativity. This work argues that several films …
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METHODOLOGICAL EMBODIMENTS:: PSYCHICAL CORPOREAL PERFORMANCES OF SUBJECTIVE SPECIFIC AUTO[EROTIC)-REPRESENTATIONS
… Methodological Embodiments :: Psychical Corporeal Performances of Subjective Specific Auto[erotic]-Representations; 2) an exhibition, I::Matter; and 3) the live performance, I::Do. My thesis argues for, and enacts, a positive framing of individual embodied experience within a dialogue …
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Novel reconstruction method after laparoscopic total gastrectomy : Intra-Corporeal Esophagojejunostomy with Endoloop(ICEE)
… anastomosis method and we named it as Intra-Corporeal Esophagojejunostomy with Endoloop(ICEE). In this study, we compared the short outcomes of LTG reconstructed by conventional purse-string suture and by ICEE. METHODS: From January 2009 to December 2012 , LTG with intracorporeal …
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Corporeal Modernity: Shared Concepts in the Work of Jackson Pollock, Martha Graham, and Merce Cunningham
… process that reminded viewers of both the corporeality of the artists and of themselves. My thesis identifies and interprets the formal analogies evident in each the artists' approach to asymmetry, repetition, gravity, and space. I argue that the common aspects among the works of the three …
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Communication Between Human and Non-Corporeal Entities: A Comparison Between Lived Experience and Cultural Expectation
… human communicative experiences with non-corporeal entities, focusing on the relationship between lived experiences and the expectations established within three spiritual traditions: Shamanism, Spiritualism, and New Age. While these traditions differ in historical origin, cultural …
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Cultivating suspicion: an ethnography of corporeal strategies deployed against vulnerability to crime in Observatory, Cape Town
This ethnographic study explores how people deal with suspicion and navigate the fear of crime in the Observatory suburb of Cape Town, South Africa. The study grapples with the question of how the neighbourhood watch, as a recently revived institution, operates. It analyses the institution and …
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Corporeal Configurations of the Heroic and the Monstrous: A Comparative Study of 'Beowulf', 'The Shahnameh' and 'Tristan'
… delves into the cataclysmic aftermath of their corporeal confrontation. At the core of this study of three linguistically and geographically different, yet thematically contiguous texts, lies the significance of corporeality in terms of its articulation of the heroic self and identification of …
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Corporeal rhetoric and social order in the viceroyalty of New Spain: from the Renaissance to the Enlightenment
Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf (zulauf@illinois.edu) on 2010-06-29T18:26:27Z Item was in collections: University of Illinois Theses & Dissertations (ID: 1) No. of bitstreams: 3 CORRECCIONES JUNIO 28.pdf: 3747168 bytes, checksum: 637067a00f4388fb9ff6c7718dd730f5 (MD5) CORRECCIONES JUNIO 28.doc: …
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