Thomas J Csordas
Biographic Data
| ID | 3617966 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Thomas J Csordas |
| GIVEN NAMES | Thomas J |
| FAMILY NAME | Csordas |
| SIGNATURE | CSORDAS T J |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 539 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 3 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Engaging Evil
Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as violenc…
Transnational Transcendence
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology
Body/Meaning/Healing
Exactly where is the common ground between religion and medicine in phenomena described as 'religious healing?' In what sense is the human body a cultural phenomenon and not merely a biological entity
Embodiment and experience
Students of culture have been increasingly concerned with the ways in which cultural values are "inscribed" on the body. These essays go beyond this passive construal of the body to a position in which embodiment is understood as the existential condition of cultural life. From this standpoint embodiment is reducible neither to representations of the body, to the body as an objectification of power, to the body as a physical entity or biological …
Embodiment and experience
Students of culture have been increasingly concerned with the ways in which cultural values are "inscribed" on the body. These essays go beyond this passive construal of the body to a position in which embodiment is understood as the existential condition of cultural life. From this standpoint embodiment is reducible neither to representations of the body, to the body as an objectification of power, to the body as a physical entity or biological …
Body/Meaning/Healing
Exactly where is the common ground between religion and medicine in phenomena described as 'religious healing?' In what sense is the human body a cultural phenomenon and not merely a biological entity
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology
Embodiment and experience
Students of culture have been increasingly concerned with the ways in which cultural values are "inscribed" on the body. These essays go beyond this passive construal of the body to a position in which embodiment is understood as the existential condition of cultural life. From this standpoint embodiment is reducible neither to representations of the body, to the body as an objectification of power, to the body as a physical entity or biological …
Embodiment as a Paradigm for Anthropology
Body/Meaning/Healing
Exactly where is the common ground between religion and medicine in phenomena described as 'religious healing?' In what sense is the human body a cultural phenomenon and not merely a biological entity
Transnational Transcendence
Engaging Evil
Anthropologists have expressed wariness about the concept of evil even in discussions of morality and ethics, in part because the concept carries its own cultural baggage and theological implications in Euro-American societies. Addressing the problem of evil as a distinctly human phenomenon and a category of ethnographic analysis, this volume shows the usefulness of engaging evil as a descriptor of empirical reality where concepts such as violenc…
Epistemology (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Body, Human (2 works) · Human body (2 works) · Phenomenon (2 works) · Social aspects (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Aesthetics (1 work) · Anarchism and Radical Politics (1 work)