Terms Whose History Is in Metaphors of the Body Cover Image

Термините с история в метафорите на тялото
Terms Whose History Is in Metaphors of the Body

Author(s): Mincho Georgiev
Subject(s): Anthropology
Published by: Институт за етнология и фолклористика с Етнографски музей при БАН

Summary/Abstract: The article interprets M.-K. Puschеl's text "The Body and Surgery During the Middle Ages". The actual question regarding the body calls for the conception of the body in its capacity of an objective and a product of culture rather than an instrument (a model, a bodily code) or structuring the cultural space. The empa¬thy of the text under consideration is in the successful creation of a set of instru¬ments whereby access can be gained to the body as a cultural construct. M.-K. Puschеl's composition requires that the question be raised how culture constitutes the human body and herein is its great contribution.

  • Issue Year: 1998
  • Issue No: 3-4
  • Page Range: 65-80
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Bulgarian