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Foreign Bodies: Performance, Art, and Symbolic Anthropology
Foreign Bodies Performance Art and Symbolic Anthropology Author:A. David Napier 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 symboli... more »c terrain ranges from Balinese cosmography to body symbolism in biomedicine.« less