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first lecture – archaeological and historical contexts second – reading the heroic body today – a comparative approach, taking in identity. located bodies – one the heroic body … continued. Klaus Theweleit on the cultural imaginary of German fascism. the Freikorps after WW1.
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first lecture – archaeological and historical contexts • second – reading the heroic body • today – a comparative approach, taking in identity
bodies in a machine agebuilding coherencefighting fragmentationestablishing identityin war and action(reading Vol 2)
threats (to identity) –explosionthe tide of history - fluiditywomen and the masses
Trobriand islanders and the Kula ringMalinowski’s Argonauts of the Western Pacific
a symbolic or general economy of exchange a system of cultural transactions through goods, travel, encounter, adventure– the extended body (associates, ability, knowledge, goods)
cultural constructionand the contest for success and prestige
the Odyssey as a series of transactions, balances, negotiations defining society and the cultural milieu of the hero, as well as personal identitythrough journey, encounter, nostos