Embodied Collective Memory: The Making and Unmaking of Human Nature - Paperback

by Rafael F. Narváez (Author)

The human body is not a given fact--it is acquired, achieved, and learned. The body remembers, and it does so in collectively relevant ways. This book discusses how, why, and to what extent corporeal memories are constructed but also resisted, modified, or created anew.

Author Biography

Rafael F. Narváez is a sociologist. He was educated in Lima, Peru, and at the Graduate Faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City. He is assistant professor of sociology at Winona State University in Minnesota. His areas of study include the sociology of the body, race, gender, and sociological and phenomenological theory.