Adorning Bodies
Meaning, Evolution, and Beauty in Humans and Animals
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Product details:
- Publisher Bloomsbury Academic
- Date of Publication 19 October 2023
- Number of Volumes Paperback
- ISBN 9781350301306
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages224 pages
- Size 234x154x14 mm
- Weight 340 g
- Language English 547
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Long description:
How is meaning in our bodies constructed? To what extent is meaning in bodies innate, evolved through biological adaptations? To what extent is meaning in bodies culturally constructed? Does it change when we adorn ourselves in dress? In Adorning Bodies, Marilynn Johnson draws on evolutionary theory and philosophy in order to think about art, beauty, and aesthetics.
Considering meaning in bodies and bodily adornment, she explores how the ways we use our bodies are similar to - yet at other times different from - animals. Johnson engages with the work of evolutionary theorists, philosophers of language, and cultural theorists - Charles Darwin, H. P. Grice, and Roland Barthes respectively - to examine both natural and non-natural meanings. She addresses how both systems of meaning signify relevant information to other humans, with respect to both bodies and clothes. Johnson also demonstrates that how we dress could negatively influence the way our bodies can be read, and how some humans and animals use their bodies to deceive.
Table of Contents:
1. Meaning in Bodies and Adornment
2. Taking Adornment Seriously: Structuralism and Meaning
3. Details on the Gricean View
4. Deception in the Human and Animal Worlds (Imitation of Natural Meaning & Lying in Non-Natural Meaning)
5. Darwin on Animal Bodies
6. Human Sexual Selection
7. The Evolution of Bodily Adornment: Signaling and Meaning-Making in Prehistory
8. Information, Misperception, Suppression, Expression
9. On Beauty: Aesthetic Choices, Adornment, & Art
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