Pain
Pain: How does Anthropology look at it? The Suffering of Body and Mind
By: RAVINDER SINGH – This Paper attempts to explore pain, social and physical, their metaphors and its suffering in and beyond body. Further it reviews evidences for neuro-chemical and neural overlap between social and physical pain. Besides it has explored consequences of this overlap and follows sociocultural aspects of pain in the anthropological lens. It…
Il dolore come valore. Modificazioni del corpo e sofferenza
By: STEFANO MENICOCCI – La diffusione, soprattutto a partire dagli anni ’80 dello scorso secolo, delle modificazioni corporee a fini estetici, dalla chirurgia estetica sino ai tatuaggi, costituisce un fenomeno culturale complesso che solo in parte ha attratto l’attenzione degli studiosi. Una delle caratteristiche delle modificazioni corporee, naturalmente, è che comportano un intervento sul corpo…
Perceiving Pain: Health, Culture and Ritual
By: DAN E. HOUSER, GERALD W. ZAMPONI – For most of us, coming into contact with some form of pain is a daily occurrence: it is both a usual part of the humanexperience and lexicon. Not surprisingly, pain has many differing and contextually specific meanings, and although it isnearly universal across the realm of human…