29. Virtuality
Placing the Virtual Body: Avatar, Chora, Cypherg
- Frances E. Mascia-Lees
Published Online: 14 JUL 2011
DOI: 10.1002/9781444340488.ch29
Copyright © 2011 Blackwell Publishing Ltd.
Book Title
A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment
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How to Cite
Boellstorff, T. (2011) Virtuality, in A Companion to the Anthropology of the Body and Embodiment (ed F. E. Mascia-Lees), Wiley-Blackwell, Oxford, UK. doi: 10.1002/9781444340488.ch29
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Rutgers University, USA
Publication History
- Published Online: 14 JUL 2011
- Published Print: 15 APR 2011
ISBN Information
Print ISBN: 9781405189491
Online ISBN: 9781444340488
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Keywords:
- virtuality - placing the virtual body - Avatar, Chora, Cypherg;
- virtual worlds, transforming understandings of the body;
- AVATAR'S AVATAR - motion picture Avatar. by James Cameron;
- virtual embodiment in practice;
- theorizations of embodiment;
- virtual chora - that virtual worlds are places;
- being-in-the-world - the digital relation;
- phenomenological insight - embodiment, part of being, and “being-in-the-world”;
- politics of virtual embodiment - theory of the virtual body that links;
- ethnographic and theoretical understandings of virtual body - powerful new ways
Summary
This chapter contains sections titled:
Introduction
Avatar's Avatar
Virtual Embodiment in Practice
Theorizations of Embodiment
Virtual Chora
Being-Inworld: The Digital Relation
Conclusions: Politics of Virtual Embodiment
Acknowledgments
References