Karin Polit
List of John Benjamins publications for which Karin Polit plays a role.
Article
2012 Chapter 14. Moved by God: Performance and memory in the Western Himalayas Body Memory, Metaphor and Movement, Koch, Sabine C., Thomas Fuchs, Michela Summa and Cornelia Müller (eds.), pp. 227–242 | Article
We review the history of the anthropological study of “body memory” and argue that it was developed in a fruitful way only with the advent of practice theory and performance studies, which focused on embodied meanings in addition to purely linguistic ones. We provide two case studies of embodied… read more