Alternative Medicine and Alternative Bodies
Alternativna medicina i alternativna tela
Résumé
Social roles and relations are constructed upon the conceptualization of one’s own and the bodies of others and their complex interaction with cultural patterns which exists in a society. Medicine is one domain of culture that offers evidence rich enough to help us understand the significance of the body as a cultural phenomenon. In the discourse of medicine and health issues, the body is understood as a subjective and intersubjective source of experience which constitutes specific representations and relations towards self and others. Adopting phenomenological and social constructivist approach, the intent was to analyse the interplay between different cultural meanings of body and diverse forms of knowledge of health and illness and their implications on particular sociocultural context. he interaction between two distinctive cultural settings of body, health and illness, and two different explanatory frameworks – one Cartesian and the other Far Eastern, produces a range of transformations on the levels of conceptualization, utilisation and representation of the body in contemporary Serbia.
U radu se razmatraju procesi i sociokulturne implikacije inkorporiranja eksternih kulturalnih elemenata kroz uticaj praktikovanja dalekoistočnih isceliteljsko-meditativnih tehnika na promene predstava o telesnosti i odnosa prema njoj u savremenoj Srbiji. Usvajajući fenomenološke i sociokonstruktivističke postavke, autorka razmatra odnos između kartezijanskog shvatanja čoveka i predstava i načina tretiranja tela prisutnih u okviru dalekoistočnih isceliteljsko-meditativnih tehnika koje se danas praktikuju u Srbiji.