Adorning bodies meaning, evolution, and beauty in humans and animals
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...
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Bloomsbury Academic
2022
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Inhaltsangabe:
- 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. Emotions: Information, Misperception, Suppression, Expression
- 9. On Beauty: Aesthetic Choices, Adornment, & Art
- Meaning in bodies and adornment
- Taking adornment seriously: structuralism and meaning
- Details on the Gricean view
- Deception in the human and animal worlds: imitation of natural meaning and lying in non-natural meaning
- Darwin on animal bodies
- Human sexual selection
- The evolution of bodily adornment: signaling and meaning-making in prehistory
- Emotions: information, misperception, suppression, and expression
- On beauty: aesthetic choices, adornment, and art