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@proceedings{990940,
author = {Kundtová Klocová, Eva},
booktitle = {Ends and Beginnings : Annual Conference of the EASR 2012},
keywords = {embodiment; ritual; environment; bodily position; subordinance; dominance},
language = {eng},
title = {Where the body ends and symbolism begins},
year = {2012}
}
TY - CONF
ID - 990940
AU - Kundtová Klocová, Eva
PY - 2012
TI - Where the body ends and symbolism begins
KW - embodiment
KW - ritual
KW - environment
KW - bodily position
KW - subordinance
KW - dominance
N2 - In different religious rituals we observe a variety of bodily postures, some ritual-specific. Scholar of religion and sociobiology Walter Burkert pointed out that many of those bodily postures and gestures may have biological origin and function. His notion based on sociobiological paradigm may seem today a bit outdated, but the importance of bodily positions and body manipulations during rituals stays in field of sight in study of religious ritual. This importance is emphasized not only on symbolic level of rituals, but also on physiological level. In current study of ritual, those two levels are usually studied as interconnected. This approach comes from contemporary cognitive psychology, which accentuates the importance of embodiedness and extendedness of the cognitive system. From this point of view, it is necessary to consider ritual bodily postures as crucial elements for understanding how participants perceive and process rituals and also how they create the symbolic language used in rituals and doctrinal systems.
ER -
KUNDTOVÁ KLOCOVÁ, Eva. Where the body ends and symbolism begins. In \textit{Ends and Beginnings : Annual Conference of the EASR 2012}. 2012.
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