To Think (and to Write) with the Body

Authors

  • Anamaría Tamayo Duque University of Antioquia

Keywords:

Body, investigator, corpo-reality, ethnography of dance, body techniques, knowledge in-corporated

Abstract

This text is a reflection on the studies of the body and the methodological  paradigm that it is used in these investigations. I take a look here at the  "corporal” of the corporal turn of social investigation in the last 20 years and I intend to analyze the bodies – both of the researchers and those they investigate – as agency, capacity of creation and transmission of knowledge, instead of seeing them as simple surfaces of inscription of the culture...

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Author Biography

Anamaría Tamayo Duque, University of Antioquia

Anthropologist from the University of Antoquia and doctor in Critical Theory of Dance from the University of California, Riverside. Professor at the Faculty of Arts of the University of Antioquia and in the Master's Degree in Anthropology from the same university.

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Published

2016-03-29

How to Cite

Tamayo Duque, A. (2016). To Think (and to Write) with the Body. Artes La Revista, 12(19), 70–79. Retrieved from https://revistas.udea.edu.co/index.php/artesudea/article/view/26286

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Ponencias