Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge write by D. S. Farrer. This book was released on 2011-12-01. Martial Arts as Embodied Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This landmark work provides a wide-ranging scholarly consideration of the traditional Asian martial arts. Most of the contributors to the volume are practitioners of the martial arts, and all are keenly aware that these traditions now exist in a transnational context. The book's cutting-edge research includes ethnography and approaches from film, literature, performance, and theater studies. Three central aspects emerge from this book: martial arts as embodied fantasy, as a culturally embedded form of self-cultivation, and as a continuous process of identity formation. Contributors explore several popular and highbrow cultural considerations, including the career of Bruce Lee, Chinese wuxia films, and Don DeLillo's novel Running Dog. Ethnographies explored describe how the social body trains in martial arts and how martial arts are constructed in transnational training. Ultimately, this academic study of martial arts offers a focal point for new understandings of cultural and social beliefs and of practice and agency.
Embodied Knowledge in Ensemble Performance
Embodied Knowledge in Ensemble Performance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embodied Knowledge in Ensemble Performance write by Dr J Murphy McCaleb. This book was released on 2014-03-28. Embodied Knowledge in Ensemble Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Performing in musical ensembles provides a remarkable opportunity for interaction between people. When playing a piece of music together, musicians contribute to the creation of an artistic work that is shaped through their individual performances. However, even though ensembles are a large part of musical activity, questions remain as to how they function. In Embodied Knowledge in Ensemble Performance, Murphy McCaleb explores the processes by which musicians interact with each other through performance.
The Embodied Mind, revised edition
The Embodied Mind, revised edition - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Embodied Mind, revised edition write by Francisco J. Varela. This book was released on 2017-01-13. The Embodied Mind, revised edition available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. A new edition of a classic work that originated the “embodied cognition” movement and was one of the first to link science and Buddhist practices. This classic book, first published in 1991, was one of the first to propose the “embodied cognition” approach in cognitive science. It pioneered the connections between phenomenology and science and between Buddhist practices and science—claims that have since become highly influential. Through this cross-fertilization of disparate fields of study, The Embodied Mind introduced a new form of cognitive science called “enaction,” in which both the environment and first person experience are aspects of embodiment. However, enactive embodiment is not the grasping of an independent, outside world by a brain, a mind, or a self; rather it is the bringing forth of an interdependent world in and through embodied action. Although enacted cognition lacks an absolute foundation, the book shows how that does not lead to either experiential or philosophical nihilism. Above all, the book's arguments were powered by the conviction that the sciences of mind must encompass lived human experience and the possibilities for transformation inherent in human experience. This revised edition includes substantive introductions by Evan Thompson and Eleanor Rosch that clarify central arguments of the work and discuss and evaluate subsequent research that has expanded on the themes of the book, including the renewed theoretical and practical interest in Buddhism and mindfulness. A preface by Jon Kabat-Zinn, the originator of the mindfulness-based stress reduction program, contextualizes the book and describes its influence on his life and work.
How the Body Shapes Knowledge
How the Body Shapes Knowledge - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook How the Body Shapes Knowledge write by Rebecca Fincher-Kiefer. This book was released on 2019. How the Body Shapes Knowledge available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This text explores the theory of embodied cognition, which suggests that human cognition is "grounded" in the neural pathways linked to bodily sensation.
Embodied Knowledge in Ensemble Performance
Embodied Knowledge in Ensemble Performance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Embodied Knowledge in Ensemble Performance write by J.Murphy McCaleb. This book was released on 2017-07-05. Embodied Knowledge in Ensemble Performance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Performing in musical ensembles provides a remarkable opportunity for interaction between people. When playing a piece of music together, musicians contribute to the creation of an artistic work that is shaped through their individual performances. However, even though ensembles are a large part of musical activity, questions remain as to how they function. In Embodied Knowledge in Ensemble Performance, Murphy McCaleb explores the processes by which musicians interact with each other through performance. McCaleb begins by breaking down current models of ensemble interaction, particularly those that rely on the same kind of communication found in conversation. In order to find a new way of describing this interaction, McCaleb considers the nature of the information being shared between musicians during performance. Using examples from postgraduate ensembles at Birmingham Conservatoire as well as his own reflective practice, he examines how an understanding of the relationship between musicians and their instruments may affect the way performers infer information within an ensemble. Drawing upon research from musicology, occupational psychology, and philosophy, and including downloadable resources of excerpts from rehearsals and performances, Embodied Knowledge provides an holistic approach to ensemble research in a manner accessible to performers, researchers and teachers.
