Foreign bodies : essays in performance, art, and symbolic anthropology /
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| Author / Creator: | Napier, A. David |
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| Imprint: | Berkeley : University of California Press, c1992. |
| Description: | xxix, 223 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/1090868 |
| 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. |
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| Physical Description: | xxix, 223 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 23 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references. |
| ISBN: | 0520065832 |