Traversing is about our ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world and how they shape the kinds of people we become. Drawing from concepts developed by two phenomenological philosophers, Martin Heidegger and Jan Patočka, and putting them in conversation with ethnographic analysis of the lives of contemporary Czechs, Susanna Trnka examines how embodiment is crucial for understanding our being-in-the-world.
In particular, Traversing scrutinizes three kinds of movements we make as embodied actors in the world: how we move through time and space, be it by walking along city streets, gliding across the dance floor, or clicking our way through digital landscapes; how we move toward and away from one another, as erotic partners, family members, or fearful, ethnic "others"; and how we move toward ourselves and the earth we live on.
Above all, Traversing focuses on tracing the ways in which the body and motion are fundamental to our lived experience of the world, so we can develop a better understanding of the empirical details of Czech society and what they can reveal to us about the human condition.
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Introduction: Movement, Technology, and Culture in the Making of (Czech) Lives
1. Footsteps through the City: Social Justice in Its Multiplicity
2. Digital Dwelling: The Everyday Freedoms of Technology Use
3. Ballroom Dance and Other Technologies of Sexuality and Desire
4. The New Europeans: Twenty-First-Century Families as Sites for Self-Realization
5. Making Moods: Food and Drink as Collective Acts of Sustenance, Pleasure, and Dissolution
6. Reconnection: Between the Power Lines and the Stars
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In this beautifully written book, Trnka deftly weaves over thirty years' worth of ethnographic work in Czechoslovakia and the Czech Republic into an astute argument for the importance of bodily engagements with technologies, nature and the world.
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ISBN
9781501749223
Publisert
2020-05-15
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Vendor
Cornell University Press
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907 gr
Høyde
229 mm
Bredde
152 mm
Dybde
22 mm
Aldersnivå
01, G, 01
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Engelsk
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Biographical note
Susanna Trnka is a social and medical anthropologist at the University of Auckland. Her previous books include One Blue Child and Competing Responsibilities.