Anthropology of pain
€ 3.00There is no pain without suffering. Pain disrupts life proportionally to the suffering it generates, but it may be terrible or negligible. When we are subjected to pain, it destroys our life, eats it away like a form of torture, and paralyzes our thinking, our desire and our social relations. But if we choose pain as a means of atonement or an expression of faith, or in sports, or in altering our bodies as in body art, it contributes to building the individual. In the wake of his studies of the anthropology of pain, David Le Breton will discuss the way in which our perception of pain determines a more or less deep suffering and destroys, or instead builds up, the individual, but invariably influences our behavior and our values—in one word, the social and cultural fabric of our lives.
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David Le Breton is professor of Sociology and Anthropology at the Marc Bloch University in Strasbourg, a member of the Institut Universitaire de France, and the author of a number of works on the anthropology of the body. Among his books that are not yet translated into Italian are: Corps et sociétés. Essai de sociologie et d'anthropologie du corps (1985); Anthropologie du corps et modernité (PUF 1990, 2003); La sociologie du corps (PUF 1992); L’adieu au corps (Métailié 1999); En souffrance (Métailié, 2007) ; Expériences de la douleur entre destruction et renaissance (Métailié, 2010). Available in Italian translation are: Passione del rischio (EGA 1995); Il mondo a piedi (Feltrinelli 2001); La pelle e la traccia. Le ferite del sé (Meltemi 2005); Il sapore del mondo. Un’antropologia dei sensi (Raffaello Cortina 2007); Antropologia del dolore (Meltemi 2007); Antropologia del corpo e modernità (Giuffrè 2007).
David Le Breton & i Dialoghi
2011
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