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Embodied Engagements with the Megaliths of Carnac: Somatic Experience, Somatic Imagery, and Bodily Techniques in Contemporary Spiritual Practices

Journal of Religion in Europe, 2021
Abstract This article explores bodily interactions, somatic experiences, and embodiment of New Age and contemporary Paganism practitioners conducting spiritual practices in the megaliths of Carnac in northwest France. Inspired from the sensory ethnography approach and applying a specific methodological framework elaborated for this study, the article ...
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"The Hands Know": Bodily Engagement and Medical Impasse in Highland Maya Bonesetting

Medical Anthropology Quarterly, 2002
In southern Middle America, highland Maya bonesetters are called on to treat many cases of bodily injury. While Guatemalan Maya bonesetters vary greatly in their techniques and specialties, they prioritize manual treatment modalities, using their hands to address problems in clients' bodies.
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Australian women's complex engagement with the yummy mummy discourse and the bodily ideals of good motherhood

Women's Studies International Forum, 2017
The celebrity “yummy mummy” is a popular and dominant contemporary representation of motherhood. Feminist analyses of the yummy mummy have predominately focused on textual readings of the Western cultural ideal of the maternal. This paper contributes to this body of scholarship by focusing on empirical data gathered from 29 women living in regional ...
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From Picturesque Detachment to Bodily Engagement: The Entwined Histories of Photography, Architecture and Climbing

2020
This chapter considers three fields closely associated with modernism: mountaineering, architecture and photography. It breaks down the distinction between exploration in natural wildernesses and in urban areas, and considers the shift from Picturesque values in photography to the valorisation of kinetic, embodied photographic practices. It also traces
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Touching, Tinkering, and Manipulating: Bodily Engagement When Reading for Academic Purposes and Why It Matters

Reading Research Quarterly
ABSTRACT Reading for academic purposes in higher education is a complex activity involving the use of various text types and formats, and readers interact with different objects such as laptops, tablets, paper formats, and writing tools.
Marte Pupe Støyva, Anne Mangen
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Urban art as platforms for bodily engagement and social encounters: theModified Social Benches

The Senses and Society, 2018
AbstractThis paper discusses the role of the Modified Social Benches, a series of urban artworks, as platforms for bodily engagement and social encounters in open, outdoor urban spaces. Special attention is given to a couple of salient aspects involving both the design of the artworks and their social appropriation: (a) the different levels of sensory ...
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Exploring Bodily Engagement: An Analysis of Chinese Literati Painting and Installation Art

Kupas Seni
The article examines the contribution of the embodied involvement in two different art traditions, Chinese literati painting and contemporary installation art. Although the two works are distinct in various cultural, temporal, and medium contexts, they both have a centre of attention on the body as a medium of art.
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Bodily Engagements with Film, Images, and Technology

2022
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From Engagement to Disengagement in a Psychiatric Assessment Process

Symbolic Interaction, 2022
Anssi Peräkylä, Liisa Voutilainen, Maarit Lehtinen   +2 more
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The Role of Gameful Elements, Bodily Interactions, and Musical Features in Fostering Engagement and Learning in Musical Serious Games

Advances in Game-based Learning Book Series, 2022
Marcella Mandanici
exaly