Browsing Faculty of Arts and Sciences by Keyword "embodiment"
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An Embodied History of Math and Logic in Russian-speaking Eurasia
(2021-05-14)This dissertation is about logical pluralism, addressed through challenges to logical binarism (true/false), as well as to the binarism that logic itself holds in relation to embodied ways of knowing. The research is ... -
Bi-Musical Moves In Luis Humberto Crosthwaite and Little Joe Hernández
(University of Arizona, Department of German Studies, 2012)Meditating on works of fiction such as Crosthwaite’s El gran preténder (1992) and Laviera’s AmeRican (1985), this article proposes bi-musicality (Hood 1960) as both a link between sociolinguistics and literary aesthetics ... -
The cultural politics of gesture
(SAGE Publications, 2009)Ethnographers enter the field as legible signs of otherness to their interlocutors. In this article, I explore the ramifications of my personal experience of being variously `read' in the course of encounters in Bangkok, ... -
Personalizing Tradition: Surinamese Maroon Music and Dance in Contemporary Urban Practice
(2013-02-25)Through comparing the repertoires, presentational characteristics, and rehearsal procedures of Surinamese Maroon culture-based performance groups within Paramaribo, I outline the concept of personalizing tradition. This ... -
The Keyboard as Sensorium: Pedagogy, Pleasure, and Philosophies of the Body, ca. 1750-1800
(2021-11-16)Denis Diderot’s famous formulation that “we are [harpsichords] endowed with feeling and memory” is but one example of a prevalent later-eighteenth-century trope that used the keyboard as a metaphor for the human body. In ...