Bodies In Motion

Author : Mary Anne Mohanraj
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 411 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2009-10-13
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780061739514

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Bodies in Motion by Mary Anne Mohanraj Pdf

Like the sweet heat of a palate-pleasing curry or the brilliant radiance of bougainvillea, the short stories in Mary Anne Mohanraj's Bodies in Motion will delight the senses and sensibilities. Her tales follow two generations of two families living on the cusp of disparate worlds, America and Sri Lanka -- their lives and ties shaped, strengthened, devastated, and altered by the emigrant-immigrant ebb and flow. Through stunning, effervescent prose, intimate moments are beautifully distilled, revealing the tug-of-war between generations and gender in stories sensual and honest, chronicling love, ambition, and the spiritual and sexual quests of mothers and daughters, fathers and sons.

Author : Thomas Lynch
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001-06-17
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780393344295

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Bodies in Motion and at Rest: On Metaphor and Mortality by Thomas Lynch Pdf

A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year Masterful essays that illuminate not only how we die but also how we live. Thomas Lynch, poet, funeral director, and author of the highly praised The Undertaking, winner of an American Book Award and finalist for the National Book Award, continues to examine the relations between the "literary and mortuary arts."

Author : Christian Meyer,Ulrich v. Wedelstaedt
Publisher : John Benjamins Publishing Company
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2017-08-14
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9789027265555

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Moving Bodies in Interaction – Interacting Bodies in Motion by Christian Meyer,Ulrich v. Wedelstaedt Pdf

This volume presents a new perspective on socially coordinated embodied activity. It brings together scholars from linguistics, interactional sociology, neuropsychology and brain research. It assembles empirical studies of the interaction in sports that draw on recent developments in ethnomethodological conversation analysis, the sociology of practice, interactional linguistics, and cognitive studies. Thinking beyond the individual body, the chapters investigate microscopically the materiality and reflexivity of skilled bodies in motion in different sports ranging from individuals jointly rock-climbing and distance-running to team sports such as rugby and basketball. Combining theoretical elements from phenomenology and cognitive studies, the volume emphasizes the temporal extension and merging of bodies towards an acting plural body and the situated embeddedness of dynamically interacting bodies in an environment that encompasses organized spaces, objects or other bodies. It thus offers a number of case studies in advanced research in embodied interaction that coalesce in a comprehensive picture of the ways human bodies merge in joint action.

Author : Theodore Dimon, Jr
Publisher : North Atlantic Books
Page : 129 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2012-11-13
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781583946916

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The Body in Motion by Theodore Dimon, Jr Pdf

An anatomical exploration of the human body, accessibly written with 162 full-color illustrations for physical therapists, dancers, yoga teachers, and students This comprehensive guide demonstrates the functions and evolution of specific body systems, explaining how they cooperate to form an upright, intelligent, tool-making marvel, capable of great technological and artistic achievement. Enhanced with 162 beautifully rendered full-color illustrations, the book opens with an introduction to the origins of movement and a journey through time and evolution—from fish to amphibian, quadruped to primate—showing how humans became the preeminent moving beings on the planet. Further examining our upright support system, the book describes the purpose of: • The extensors, flexors, and spine • The importance of the shoulder girdle as a support structure for the arm • The hands and upper limbs • The pelvic girdle • The feet and lower limbs • Breathing • The larynx and throat musculature • The spiral musculature of the trunk It is our upright posture that makes it possible for us to move in an infinite variety of ways, to manipulate objects, to form speech, and to perform the complex rotational movements that underlie many of our most sophisticated skills. These systems, Dimon argues persuasively, have helped us build, invent, create art, explore the world, and imbue life with a contemplative, spiritual dimension that would otherwise not exist.

Author : Urmila Mohan,Laurence Douny
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2020-11-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781000185409

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The Material Subject by Urmila Mohan,Laurence Douny Pdf

The Material Subject emphasises how bodily and material cultures combine to make and transform subjects dynamically. The book is based on the French Matière à Penser (MaP) school of thought, which draws upon the ideas of Mauss, Schilder, Foucault and Bourdieu, among others, to enhance the anthropological study of embodiment, practices, techniques, materiality and power. Through theoretical sophistication and empirical field research, case studies from Europe, Africa and Asia bring MaP’s ideas into dialogue with other strands of material culture studies in the English-speaking world. These studies mediate different scales of engagement through a sensori-motor, affective and cognitive focus on practices of making and doing. Examples range from the precarity of professional divers in French public works to the gendered subjectivity of female carpet weavers in Morocco, from the ways Swiss watchmakers transmit craft knowledge to how Hindu devotees in India make efficacious use of altars, and from the enskilment of Paiwan indigenous people in Taiwan to the prestige of women’s wild silk wrappers in Burkina Faso. The chapters are organised according to domains of practice, defined as 'matter of' work and technology, heritage, politics, religion and knowledge. Scholars and students with an interest in material culture will gain valuable access to global research, rooted in a specific intellectual tradition.

Author : Eadweard Muybridge
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 415 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2012-04-27
Category : Art
ISBN : 9780486129914

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The Human Figure in Motion by Eadweard Muybridge Pdf

The 4,789 photographs in this definitive selection show the human figure — models almost all undraped — engaged in over 160 different types of action: running, climbing stairs, etc.

Author : Angie Abdou,Jamie Dopp
Publisher : Athabasca University Press
Page : 193 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781771992282

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Writing the Body in Motion by Angie Abdou,Jamie Dopp Pdf

Sport literature is never just about sport. The genre’s potential to explore the human condition, including aspects of violence, gender, and the body, has sparked the interest of writers, readers, and scholars. Over the last decade, a proliferation of sport literature courses across the continent is evidence of the sophisticated and evolving body of work developing in this area. Writing the Body in Motion offers introductory essays on the most commonly taught Canadian sport literature texts. The contributions sketch the state of current scholarship, highlight recurring themes and patterns, and offer close readings of key works. Organized chronologically by source text, ranging from Shoeless Joe (1982) to Indian Horse (2012), the essays offer a variety of ways to read, consider, teach, and write about sport literature.

Author : Joseph Mills
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-23
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1950413403

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Bodies in Motion by Joseph Mills Pdf

In Joseph Mills seventh collection of poems, Bodies in Motion, he shows us how dance not only frees and feeds the body but shows us how we are all dancing our way through life.

Author : Lawrence Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 590 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 201?
Category : Physics
ISBN : OCLC:1088411969

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Body Physics by Lawrence Davis Pdf

"Body Physics was designed to meet the objectives of a one-term high school or freshman level course in physical science, typically designed to provide non-science majors and undeclared students with exposure to the most basic principles in physics while fulfilling a science-with-lab core requirement. The content level is aimed at students taking their first college science course, whether or not they are planning to major in science. However, with minor supplementation by other resources, such as OpenStax College Physics, this textbook could easily be used as the primary resource in 200-level introductory courses. Chapters that may be more appropriate for physics courses than for general science courses are noted with an asterisk symbol (*). Of course this textbook could be used to supplement other primary resources in any physics course covering mechanics and thermodynamics"--Textbook Web page.

Author : Zane Kotker
Publisher : Open Road Media
Page : 151 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2015-11-24
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781504028776

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Bodies in Motion by Zane Kotker Pdf

Bodies in Motion takes us back to Manhattan’s Upper West Side and a culture just beginning to crack, as women dared to want more than the standard choice—children or career. Young, single Sonya works as a science photographer for children’s books and lives in a fanciful world of her own observation. She marries the appealing but sometimes oblivious Victor. Soon Peter is born. At first mother and baby wheel contentedly about the “glens and shadowy places” of nearby Riverside Park. As her son learns to walk, Sonya takes him into a playground to be socialized. Here natural forces and social customs reveal themselves to Sonya, though she no longer packs a camera. Olivia is born. At the sandbox Sonya notices how female and male programming appear and are fostered. Back in her apartment she finds herself sinking into the traditional female role. Will she retain her own curious eye? Will she ever get her camera out of the closet? The culture has changed since 1972 when Bodies in Motion was first published, but the work of raising children remains the same.

Author : Jane Desmond
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 082231942X

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Meaning in Motion by Jane Desmond Pdf

On dance and culture

Author : Christian Meyer,Jürgen Streeck,J. Scott Jordan
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 449 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 9780190210465

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Intercorporeality by Christian Meyer,Jürgen Streeck,J. Scott Jordan Pdf

This book draws inspiration from Maurice Merleau-Ponty's concept of intercorporeality to offer a new, multidisciplinary perspective on the body. By drawing attention to the body's ability to simultaneously sense and be sensed, Merleau-Ponty transcends the object-subject divide and describes how bodies are about, into, and within other bodies. Such inherent relationality constitutes the essence of intercorporeality, and the chapters in this book examine such relationality from a host of diverse perspectives. The book begins with an introductory chapter in which the editors review the current research on bodily interaction, and introduce the notion of intercorporeality as a potentially integrative framework. The first section then offers four chapters devoted to clarifying theoretical and developmental perspectives on intercorporeality. Section 2 contains three chapters that provide insight on intercorporeality from evolutionary, historical, and cross-sectional perspectives. In Section 3, four chapters examine the intercorporeal nature of meaning-making during human interaction. Section 4 then presents three chapters that explore the intercorporeal nature of multi-agent interactions and the role that non-animate bodies (i.e., objects) play in such interaction. Throughout all the chapters, the authors work to integrate research in their specific discipline into the larger, transdisciplinary notion of intercorporeality. This collection provides an indisputably unique perspective on bodies-in-interaction, while simultaneously offering an interdisciplinary way forward in contemporary scholarship on bodies, meaning, and interaction.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2024-06-26
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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PILATES BODY IN MOTION by Anonim Pdf

Author : Lionel Shriver
Publisher : HarperCollins
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2020-05-19
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780062328274

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The Motion of the Body Through Space by Lionel Shriver Pdf

In Lionel Shriver’s entertaining send-up of today’s cult of exercise—which not only encourages better health, but now like all religions also seems to promise meaning, social superiority, and eternal life—an aging husband’s sudden obsession with extreme sport makes him unbearable. After an ignominious early retirement, Remington announces to his wife Serenata that he’s decided to run a marathon. This from a sedentary man in his sixties who’s never done a lick of exercise in his life. His wife can’t help but observe that his ambition is “hopelessly trite.” A loner, Serenata disdains mass group activities of any sort. Besides, his timing is cruel. Serenata has long been the couple’s exercise freak, but by age sixty, her private fitness regimes have destroyed her knees, and she’ll soon face debilitating surgery. Yes, becoming more active would be good for Remington’s heart, but then why not just go for a walk? Without several thousand of your closest friends? As Remington joins the cult of fitness that increasingly consumes the Western world, her once-modest husband burgeons into an unbearable narcissist. Ignoring all his other obligations, he engages a saucy, sexy personal trainer named Bambi, who treats Serenata with contempt. When Remington sets his sights on the legendarily grueling triathlon, MettleMan, Serenata is sure he’ll end up injured or dead. And even if he does survive, their marriage may not. The Motion of the Body Through Space is vintage Lionel Shriver written with psychological insight, a rich cast of characters, lots of verve and petulance, an astute reading of contemporary culture, and an emotionally resonant ending.

Author : Aydin Tözeren
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2006-04-18
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9780387216911

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Human Body Dynamics by Aydin Tözeren Pdf

A quantitative approach to studying human biomechanics, presenting principles of classical mechanics using case studies involving human movement. Vector algebra and vector differentiation are used to describe the motion of objects and 3D motion mechanics are treated in depth. Diagrams and software-created sequences are used to illustrate human movement.