TY  - BOOK
AU  - Finol,José Enrique
TI  - On the Corposphere: Anthroposemiotics of the Body 
T2  - Semiotics, Communication and Cognition [SCC] ,
SN  - 9783110696851
AV  - HM636 .F566 2021
U1  - 306.4 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Berlin, Boston
PB  - De Gruyter Mouton
KW  - Human body
KW  - Social aspects
KW  - Semiotics
KW  - Anthropologie
KW  - Riten
KW  - Semiotik
KW  - LANGUAGE ARTS & DISCIPLINES / Linguistics / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Anthropology
KW  - Body
KW  - Rites
N1  - Frontmatter --; Foreword --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Introduction: The forgotten body --; Chapter I The knowledge of the body --; Chapter II The Corposphere --; Chapter III Social imaginaries, borders, and limits of the semiotics of the body --; Chapter IV Body modalities: Space and movement, rituals and eroticism --; Chapter V Body, aesthetics, and hedonism --; Chapter VI Body and ritual: The structure of the gesture in public ceremonies --; Chapter VII Myth, body, and beauty: Rituals of the Misses --; Chapter VIII Rite and discourse: Body, disease, and death in two funeral texts --; Chapter IX “Your Body is the Message” --; Chapter X Body and Identity: Space, places, and territories --; References --; Index; restricted access; Issued also in print
N2  - The book presents and analyzes some of the most important issues related to the body seen as a rich and complex anthropological and semiotic object, capable of playing a decisive role in the meaning making processes of cultural and social life. The analysis presented in this book opens a whole set of new venues for the study of body performances and representations, and shows how the embodiment of social and cultural life shape our world. In all of its relationships and in itself, our body works in a sort of corposphere, which is, in turn, part of the semiosphere, defined by Lotman as a continuum occupied by different types of semiotic formations. It is from/in/by the body that all semiosis begins and ends; it is in its presence and absence, in its being and in its presentation amidst the lived situational life where we might discover and shape the senses of the world. Many different academic fields will find in this book deep insights about how the body is at the center of cultural and social processes
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110696899
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9783110696899
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9783110696899/original
ER  -