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Traversing is about our ways of seeing, experiencing, and moving through the world and how they shape the kinds of people we become. Drawing from concepts developed by two phenomenological philosophers, Martin Heidegger and Jan Patocka, and putting them in conversation with ethnographic analysis of the lives of contemporary Czechs, Susanna Trnka examines how embodiment is crucial for understanding our being-in-the-world.In particular, Traversing scrutinizes three kinds of movements we make as embodied actors in the world: how we move through time and space, be it by walking along city streets, gliding across the dance floor, or clicking our way through digital landscapes; how we move toward and away from one another, as erotic partners, family members, or fearful, ethnic "others"; and how we move toward ourselves and the earth we live on.Above all, Traversing focuses on tracing the ways in which the body and motion are fundamental to our lived experience of the world, so we can develop a better understanding of the empirical details of Czech society and what they can reveal to us about the human condition.

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Sociologie, société et politique

History of Europe

Czech Republic

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Publié par	Cornell University Press
Date de parution	15 mai 2020
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781501749247
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	4 Mo

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TRAVERSING

TRAVERSINGEmbodiedLifeworldsintheCzech Republic

CORNELL UNIVERSITY PRESS

SusannaTrnka

ITHACA AND LONDON

Allrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,thisbook,orpartsthereof, must not be reproduced in any form without permission in writing from the publisher. For information, address Cornell University Press, Sage House, 512 East State Street, Ithaca, New York 14850. Visit our website at cornellpress.cornell.edu.

First published 2020 by Cornell University Press

Printed in the United States of America

Library of Congress CataloginginPublication Data Names: Trnka, Susanna, author. Title:Traversing:embodiedlifeworldsintheCzechRepublic/SusannaTrnka.Description:Ithaca:CornellUniversityPress,2020.|Includesicalraphliogbibreferences and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2019034450 (print) | LCCN 2019034449 (ebook) | ISBN30(74921501978)|pebu2249(h381971750|)NBSIcdrarevo ISBN 9781501749247(pdf) Subjects:LCSH:Ethnology—CzechRepublic.|Ethnology—Philosophy.|CzechRepublic—Social life and customs. Classification:LCCDB2040.T762020(ebook)|LCCDB2040(print)|DDC943.7105/13—dc23 LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019034450LCrecordavailableathttps://lccn.loc.gov/2019034449

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Onlybymeansofabody,andofabodywhichwecontroldirectly,canwe be active in the world, taking a real part in the process of change of what it contains.

—Jan Patocˇka, “The ‘Natural’ World and Phenomenology”

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Introduction: Movement, Technology, and Culture in the Making of (Czech) Lives 1. Footsteps through the City: Social Justice in Its Multiplicity 2. Digital Dwelling: The Everyday Freedoms of Technology Use 3. Ballroom Dance and Other Technologies of Sexuality and Desire 4. The New Europeans: TwentyFirstCentury Families as Sites for SelfRealization 5. Making Moods: Food and Drink as Collective Acts of Sustenance, Pleasure, and Dissolution 6. Reconnection: Between the Power Lines and the Stars

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Acknowledgments

FirstandforemostIwouldliketothankmyinterlocutors,friends,andrelativesin the Czech Republic for opening their doors and sharing their lives with me. I cannot do justice to the many insights they have shared, much less to the generosity of spirit they have shown me and my family, but it has not gone unnoticed. I will not name them here as many of them appear (with pseud onyms) in the pages of this book, but my gratitude to them runs deep. Several colleagues and friends from around the world very generously read the draft manuscript and gave me detailed feedback for which I am extremely grateful. I would especially like to thank Alena Heitlinger, Lloyd Johns, Sarah Pinto, Amy Speier, Julie Spray, Marek Tesar, Jason Throop, and Anja Uhlmann. I am very grateful to my brother, Peter Trnka, who read the manuscript with a philoso pher’s keen eye and engaged in many a debate over Heidegger’s texts with me. My husband, John Correll, deserves credit for providing feedback on a very early first draft as well as for patiently partaking in years of discussions about Heidegger, Patocˇka, and the nature of ethnography as the book unfolded. My parents, Nina and Jirˇí Trnka, took a keen interest in this project, reading through sections of the book and sharing their memories of post–World War II Czechoslovak society. ThankyoualsotomydearfriendandlongtimecolleagueChristineDureau,who spent many hours discussing this project with me and gently encouraging it forward. Three other friends made sure I was well supplied with encouragement and enthusiasm during the research and writing process—my warmest thanks to KerryGibsonandPhyllisHerdainAucklandandKaterˇinaKˇrížkováinPrague.ThanksareduetoTerezaStöckelováandVáclavBˇelohradskýfortheirthought ful and generous engagement with this project and to Jana Kopelent Rehak for sharing with me her memories (and those of her family and friends) of ballroom dance classes as well as her thoughts on how Czechs navigate through space. I am also grateful to Ivan Chvatík for showing me around Prague’s Patocˇka Archive. CourtneyAddison,SharynGrahamDavies,PaulineHerbst,JesseHessionGrayman, and Sam TaylorAlexander provided detailed feedback on chapter 3 as part of a Society of Medical Anthropology in Aotearoa (SOMAA) roundtable in Auckland. I would like to thank the editors ofPloughsharesfor permitting pub lication of an excerpt from Jaroslav Seifert’s poem “View from Charles Bridge,” the English translation of which was originally published in their journal. Chap ter 6 draws from a previous publication (“Playing Cowboys and Indians: The

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