Corpus totum – corpus fractum – corpus mysticum. The body and its parts in religion and culture
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2022-1-11-29
Abstract
The article presents an analysis of the famous Indian myth about the dissected body of Sati, which became the basis for both a number of philosophical concepts and local cults, linked together by the idea of the wholeness of the dispersed body of the goddess. On a broad historical, cultural and ethnographic material, the author explores the categories of corporeality, ideas about boundaries, identity, belonging, ethics and aesthetics of the body, about social and ritual bodies, about the instrumental function of the human body as a universal measure, simultaneously serving as an object and subject of action and cognition.
About the Author
S. I. Ryzhakova
Institute of Ethnology and Anthropology, Russian Academy of Science
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Svetlana I. Ryzhakova, Dr. of Sci. (History)
32A, Leninsky Av., Moscow, 119991
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Ryzhakova S.I. Corpus totum – corpus fractum – corpus mysticum. The body and its parts in religion and culture. Studia Religiosa Rossica: Russian Journal of Religion. 2022;(1):11-29. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-4158-2022-1-11-29
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