Le rite est dé-corps

Authors

  • Jean-Thierry Maertens Université Laval

Abstract

The body is simultaneously physical toil and erogenous, production or reproduction on the one hand, yearning for a lost origin on the other. Rituality is a cultural undertaking which attempts to transform this erogeneous element into a "signifier," to transpose this semiotic reality on a symbolic level. Thus the body is reduced to a "sense." Rituality becomes disembodiment, not only by its synchronic reduction of the body but, even moreso, by its "diachronism" progressively focalizing surfaces increasingly distant from the body.

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Published

2022-04-14

How to Cite

Maertens, J.-T. (2022). Le rite est dé-corps. Anthropologica, 21(1), 9–22. Retrieved from https://cas-sca.journals.uvic.ca/index.php/anthropologica/article/view/1530