How Long to Read Embodiments of Cultural Encounters

How Long Does it Take to Read Embodiments of Cultural Encounters?

It takes the average reader 4 hours and 34 minutes to read Embodiments of Cultural Encounters by Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun

Assuming a reading speed of 250 words per minute. Learn more

Description

The meeting of members of different cultures, frequently conceptualized in abstract terms, always involves the meeting of human bodies. This volume brings together contributions by scholars of various disciplines that address physical aspects and effects of cultural encounters in historical and present-day settings. Bodies were and are not only markers of cultural identity and difference, endlessly inscribed and represented as the 'body politic' or 'the exotic other'; as battlegrounds of cross-cultural signification and identification bodies are also potential agents of change. While some essays address the elusiveness of the 'real' or material body, forever lost behind a veil of textual and visual representation, others analyze the performative effect of such representations - their function of disciplining colonized bodies and subjects by integrating them into Western systems of cultural signification and scientific classification. Yet, as the volume also shows, formerly colonized people, far from subjecting themselves completely to Western discourses of physical discipline, retain traditional body practices - whether in food culture, religious ritual, or musical performances. Such local reinscriptions escape the grip of Western culture and transform the global semantics of the body.

How long is Embodiments of Cultural Encounters?

Embodiments of Cultural Encounters by Sebastian Jobs, Gesa Mackenthun is 272 pages long, and a total of 68,544 words.

This makes it 92% the length of the average book. It also has 84% more words than the average book.

How Long Does it Take to Read Embodiments of Cultural Encounters Aloud?

The average oral reading speed is 183 words per minute. This means it takes 6 hours and 14 minutes to read Embodiments of Cultural Encounters aloud.

What Reading Level is Embodiments of Cultural Encounters?

Embodiments of Cultural Encounters is suitable for students ages 12 and up.

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