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Speaking And Sensing The Self In Authentic Movement: The Search For Authenticity In A 21st Century White Urban Middle-Class Community, Seran Schug Aug 2013

Speaking And Sensing The Self In Authentic Movement: The Search For Authenticity In A 21st Century White Urban Middle-Class Community, Seran Schug

Seran E Schug Ph.D.

Speaking and Sensing the Self in Authentic Movement The Search for Authenticity in a 21st Century White Urban Middle-Class Community Seran Endrigian Schug Asif Agha and Rebecca Huss-Ashmore This ethnography is about Authentic Movement, a ritual form of dance and self-narrative in which a participant performs free association through trancelike movement in the presence of a “compassionate” witness as a means toward the discovery of an authentic self. Rooted in anti-modernist social movements in late 19th century urban middle- and upper-class communities in the United States, Authentic Movement brings to light a central paradox of modern life—though it is through …


Fragmented Liveness / Mediated Moments, Kristen Lovell Apr 2011

Fragmented Liveness / Mediated Moments, Kristen Lovell

Kristen R Lovell

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