beyond feldenkrais

Tim Ingold

Ingold is an anthropologist serious about taking "the material" seriously. He was thinking about feet and walking for a spell; his article 'Culture on the ground: the world perceived through the feet' (Journal of Material Culture, 9(3) (2004) : 315-340) strongly relates to themes we explore in Feldenkrais, supporting some things we commonly say in teaching ATMs and challenging others.

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John Law

Sociologist John Law is on this list mostly for the article coauthored with Annemarie Mol on hypoglycaemia.

John Cromby

John Cromby, a lecturer in the Department of Human Sciences at Loughborough University, thinking about embodied subjectivity in critical theory. Many articles for download. Check out "Theorising embodied subjectivity."

Historical anatomies on the web

Albinus side view

From the History of Medicine division of the (U.S.) National Library of Medicine (...of the National Institutes of Health), some wonderful scans of classic historical anatomy texts, including Vesalius and Albinus, and a treatise by Durer on proportions.

Bodies of Knowledge

This delightful learning module at the British Library takes you through some fascinating historical and contemporary practices of representation of the body, with learning activities centered around four themes:

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