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Constructing Meaning through Human Movement

Making sense of the sacred

Zachary Beckstead author

Format:Hardback

Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd

Publishing:1st Jan '30

£105.00

This title is due to be published on 1st January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.

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Human living entails the perpetual exploration of both natural and built-up environments, including physical movement – all modes of sensory involvement, and psychological movement – the movement of the mind. This book takes human movement as a central concept to understanding the richness and complexity of living and explores how both forms of movement, the body and the psyche, intersect and interact. Chapters examine how the higher and lower psychological functions converge in a meaning-making process and provide a theoretical development of semiotic mediation and ambivalence. A series of case studies offer concrete examples of the application of the theory of meaning-making, and consider the relationship between continental traditions (e.g. hermeneutics and phenomenology) and semiotic cultural psychology.

ISBN: 9781138927599

Dimensions: unknown

Weight: unknown

224 pages