Metamorphoses of the Body,9780816626823

Metamorphoses of the Body

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ISBN13: 9780816626823
ISBN10: 0816626820
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1998-03-01
Publisher(s): Univ of Minnesota Pr
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Summary

Explores the relationship between power and the body.

Table of Contents

Translator's Preface vii(2)
Introduction ix
Part I: The Antinomies of Power 1(86)
1 First Antinomy (on the Means of Power) Range of the antinomy -- Forces, operators, and signs -- Prestige -- Witchcraft: meaning in excess -- Politics of repression
9(16)
2 Second Antinomy (on the Forms of Power) Range of the antinomy -- Distribution of powers, democracy -- Political power and social power -- Contracts of power -- The surplus value of power -- The case of the Nambikwara -- The autonomy of politics
25(16)
3 Third Antinomy (on the Ends of Power) Range of the antinomy -- A case study: the function of the dead among the LoDagaba -- Reexamination of a text by Marshall Sahlins -- The social power of the dead -- The solution of the antinomy
41(16)
4 Fourth Antinomy (on the Limits of Power) Range of the antinomy -- Space and time: reasons for the antinomy -- An illustration: a therapeutic ritual among the Ndembu -- Ritual and the irreversibility of time -- Stages of the ritual -- Symbolics of the ritual: the Isoma case -- The organization of signs -- The solution of the antinomy of the body -- Ritual and power
57(30)
Part II: Metamorphoses of the Body: Prolegomena to a Theory of the Symbolic Object 87(140)
1 The Floating Signifier Therapy and bodily energies -- The remainder, between thing and symbol
93(14)
2 The Body, Transducer of Signs Pantomime and infralanguage -- Gesturology -- Infralanguage and the image of the body -- The space of the body: exfoliations -- The one-multiple and forms -- The notion of infralanguage: rhythm and exfoliation -- The return of the ritual -- Metamorphoses of one-becoming and the image of the body -- Animal-becoming: Kafka as ethnologist
107(46)
3 The Body and the Traditional Community The monster caricature, and Arcimboldo -- Reexamination of the Maori text
153(12)
4 Dance and the Laughter of Bodies Dance and infralanguage -- The "grotesque" body in the Middle Ages
165(10)
5 Seriousness of Symbols and Incarnation Potlatch and symbolic surplus value -- Fixing the floating signifier and the supreme signifier -- The example of sects -- Voice and the body
175(12)
6 The Body and the Voice
187(10)
7 The Body in Penal Settlements Discussion of Kafka's In the Penal Settlement -- Change in the regime of signs -- Ecorches
197(20)
8 Note on the Frontispiece of De Humani Corporis Fabrica by Vesalius
217(10)
Part III: The Body and the Origin of the State 227(86)
1 Anthropology and the Problem of the Origin of the State Before the State
235(10)
2 Conditions Under Which Societies without States Can Become State Societies Nature of politics -- Politics and the magical-religious: overlays -- Towards an economy of the surplus value of power
245(16)
3 The Origin of the State The monopoly of violence and tribal justice -- The space of justice -- Conflict, exchanges, and debt -- The judiciary process -- Justice and State law -- The body of the State
261(28)
4 The Body of the State
289(16)
5 The Surplus Value of the Power of the State
305(8)
Notes 313(18)
Index 331

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