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| Perceiving the Social Body: A Phenomenological Perspective on Ethical Practice in Buddhist Thailand | ||
| 作者 | Aulino, Felicity |
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| 出處題名 | Journal of Religious Ethics |
| 卷期 | v.42 n.3 |
| 出版日期 | 2014.09 |
| 頁次 | 415 - 441 |
| 出版者 | Wiley-Blackwell |
| 出版者網址 | http://www.wiley.com/WileyCDA/ |
| 出版地 | Oxford, UK [牛津, 英國] |
| 資料類型 | 期刊論文=Journal Article |
| 使用語言 | 英文=English |
| 關鍵詞 | moral anthropology; phenomenology; social body; Thailand; embodiment; hierarchy |
| 摘要 | This essay develops the concept of the “social body” as a metaphorical representation of hierarchical relationships in Thailand, as well as the physical embodiment of social, religious, and political structures. To do so, I trace the symbolic coordinates of groups that correspond to conceptions of individual bodies, along with the habituated means of perceiving as part of a collective. I argue that conventional Thai social interactions involve active attention to and care of the “social body,” in which differential roles are necessary for group functioning. Ethnographic descriptions of social interactions in public and semi-private arenas depict the spontaneous and embodied root of moral action in these contexts. The values thus enacted, however, challenge normative ideals of distributive justice and open up questions about “care” for a social body that validates unequal power and resource distribution. |
| ISSN | 03849694 (P); 14679795 (E) |
| 點閱次數 | 389 |
| 建檔日期 | 2014.11.06 |
| 更新日期 | 2019.09.19 |
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