Embodiment, a new paradigm in anthropological studies Cultural phenomenology from Csordas’s perspective

Document Type : علمی وپزوهشی

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1 PhD student in anthropology, University of Tehran, Department of Anthropology

2 Assistant professor of Anthropology Department, Social science Faculty, Tehran University

10.22059/jsr.2024.368476.1919

Abstract

In this article, we have tried to better understand the concept of embodiment and its place among anthropological and sociological approaches by getting to know Thomas Csordas’s perspective Through his theories and works. Understanding the embodied world is rediscovering self and the world in the singularity of materiality intertwined with meaning; Understanding the world of things behind the curtain of their human-social identification as objects. This return to world of things is joy of remembering the interconnected world and also the difficult and complex encounter with alienation and separation of other. In this confrontation, the direct judgment of human subjectivity is distorted and reconstruct in its forgotten body. One of the challenges of writing this article has been introducing Csordas’s world and theory from his perspective. The purpose of this article is understanding the philosophical and theoretical concept of embodiment and face it as an ontological and methodological paradigm in anthropological and sociological studies. Therefore, first, the concept of embodiment and its philosophical and theoretical roots have been briefly discussed; Then, its methodological aspects are stated from the Csordas’s point of view. Csordas is important because he describes embodiment as a paradigm that brings us to a more coherent and general understanding of the culture and his sufferings. Csordas also presents a coherent formulation of "cultural phenomenology" in the embodied paradigm, as a phenomenological method in anthropological and cultural research.

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