Body, Personhood and Privacy: Perspectives on the Cultural Other and Human Experience

• Other Authors: Tasa, Monika (Editor), Västrik, Ergo-Hart (Editor), Kannike, Anu (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Tartu University of Tartu Press 2017
• Series: Approaches to Culture Theory
• Subjects: Communication studies; Semiotics / semiology; Prehistoric archaeology; Food & society; Population & demography; Sociology: death & dying; Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; biopolitics; fieldwork; ethnicity; personhood; body; cultural other; death; public and private; space; ethnography; Estonia; Georges Bataille; Russians
• Online Access: DOAB: download the publication; DOAB: description of the publication

This book studies how the concepts of body, personhood and privacy can be expanded across disciplinary borders. Notwithstanding the diversity of empirical material and theoretical frameworks, the chapters suggest innovative tools for common key issues: dialogue with the cultural Other, the appropriation of space, and personality. Human embodiment and ethical aspects of representing and regulating cultural practices are a major focus through much of the volume. The book is illustrated with some of the finest examples of Tartu street art.