Search
Search results for
We found
9 results for you
-
Embodied history. Uniqueness and exemplarity of South African AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Didier Fassin --- ,The exceptionality of AIDS in South Africa, both for its epidemiological features and public controversies, seems to have its correspondence in the exceptionalism of South African history, with its unprecedented regime of apartheid and its unexpected turn to democracy. The... -
Embodied urban health and illness in Cape Town: children's reflections on living in Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Efua Prah --- Department of Anthropology and Sociology, South AfricaThis paper explores ideas about health and illness held by six children who live in the Symphony Way Temporary Relocation Area in Cape Town, South Africa. The research shows that solutions to illness and health problems held by low-income populations... -
Embodied self-awareness among South African social services therapist-practitioners: An exploratory study
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Colleen Angela Potgieter --- CCYF, COMPRES, Faculty of Health Sciences, South Africa Cornelia Hesther Margaretha Bloem --- CCYF, COMPRES, Faculty of Health Sciences, South AfricaWe explored South African social service therapist-practitioners’ experiences of their own lived body in the context of practice. The participants consisted of a convenience sample of 13 therapist-practitioners registered with the Health Professions Council of South Africa and the South... -
Cloth as a membrane of the imagination in the artwork of Mary Sibande
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Patricia C. Henderson --- Department of Anthropology, South AfricaThis paper brings future-orientated theories of becoming to bear on the work of artist Mary Sibande. Contemporary social theory is increasingly interested in how human life and matter join in vital forms of assemblage. In relation to Sibande’s work in... -
Theoretical turns through tourism taste-scapes: the evolution of food tourism research
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Sally Everett --- King’s Business School, United KingdomThis article reflects on the evolution of food tourism research by tracing its conceptual, theoretical and empirical twists and turns over the past few decades. Prompted by some recent systematic reviews of food tourism studies, I draw on literature to... -
‘Who is this body?’ – A qualitative user study on ‘The Machine to be Another’ as a virtual embodiment system
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Jonathan Harth --- , Germany Maximilian Brücher --- , Germany Nele Kost --- , Germany Ann-Danielle Hartwig --- , Germany Bernhard Schäfermeyer --- , Germany Erwin Holkin --- , Germany Hanna Gottschalk --- , GermanyLike no other medium, virtual reality (VR) offers new possibilities to alter the perception of reality. These possibilities are mainly related to the feeling of presence in a virtual environment. With the VR performance ‘The Machine to be Another’ (TMTBA),... -
Living in the age of the embodied screen
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Jean du Toit --- , South AfricaThe technological virtual converges with our contemporary existence in a multitude of ways, which suggests a need to interrogate the question of the virtual existentially. Merleau-Ponty’s existential phenomenological account of embodiment is invaluable in this regard because the virtual is... -
Hospitality in a theatre: The role of physical warmth
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Ruth Pijls --- , The Netherlands Mirjam Galetzka --- , The Netherlands Brenda H Groen --- , The Netherlands Ad T H Pruyn --- , The NetherlandsInsight into psychological mechanisms offers service organisations the opportunity to increase their hospitality performance. The present research shows that physical warmth positively contributes to people’s experience of hospitality. In a field experiment among 127 visitors to a theatre, the effects... -
“Sing and make music to the Lord”: cultural difference in South Africa’s urban religious soundscapes
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Douglas Bafford --- , United StatesScholars of contemporary Christianity have long noted the importance of sacred music in constructing faith communities and distinguishing religious actors from one another. Drawing on historical and ethnographic evidence gathered over 16 months in Johannesburg, South Africa, I examine the...