Significance Of Body Research Articles

Consumer understanding of beer and wine body: An exploratory study of an ill-defined concept

Body is a key sensory characteristic for beverage acceptability, drinkability and an important consideration when making a purchase decision. Evidence suggests that consumers perceive low-alcohol beverages as lacking body. Despite the significance of body, little is known about consumer's understanding of the term. This paper employed a qualitative approach to gain insights into regular beer and wine consumers' understanding of beer and wine body in the UK. Focus group (FG) and the Free Choice Description (FCD) techniques helped explore the term with frequent beer and wine consumers (n = 90). In contrast with most research within alcoholic beverages which has focused on body perception as a one-dimensional viscosity component, this paper identified other sensory characteristics and compositional factors for both beer and wine that were perceived to contribute to body perception from a consumer perspective. It was evident from the present exploratory study that body constituted several modalities, including flavour, mouthfeel and aroma. Other essential factors for beer and wine body perception included appearance and overall beverage quality. It was also demonstrated that specific flavours, including dark fruit (blackberry, cherry, plum), citrus and tropical fruit flavours, Maillard reaction and cereal, as well as the barrel-age flavours (chocolate, coffee, caramel, smoke, grain, oak, roasted malt) were important for body perception. Mouthfeel attributes, such as velvety, smooth, and creamy, were also perceived to be responsible for body perception in beer and wine. Overall, findings from this study are compared across beverage types to provide direction to researchers and new-product developers on the key factors contributing to body perception from the consumer perspective.

Blackness, biopolitics, borders: African immigration, racialization, and the limits of American exceptionalism

ABSTRACT Centreing the corporeal experiences and material significance of bodies lays bare the border as a site for social reproduction. Utilizing critical discourse analyses on three mediatized encounters – Abdi Nor Iftin, Amadou Diallo, and Ahmed Mohammed – between African immigrancy to the United States and that nation-state's surveillance of bodies discloses a key contradiction within those encounters: a mésalliance that positions Africans as an archetype of human capital and simultaneously a critical threat to the national psyche. This essay argues that African immigrants expose this contradiction, raising questions on Blackness, sexuality, identity, immigration, anti-colonialism, and the afterlife of slavery. This dynamic not only reveals how contingent U.S. citizenship can be, while also “calling the bluff” of its exceptionalism and the underlying social contract of global neoliberalism, but also grounds Blackness transnationally as a way to avoid reproducing the racialized “sorting” that occurs before, during, and after face-to-face encounters.

Aesthetic Capability and Significance of Body and Mind in Korean Dance

Aesthetic Capability and Significance of Body and Mind in Korean Dance

Flesh matters: The body in cognition

Embodied cognition emphasizes the importance of the body to cognition, but what is the nature of this importance? For some advocates, the body provides a computational resource within the context of a larger cognitive system. For others, the body constrains cognition, such that differently embodied organisms will differ cognitively as well. I examine these distinct conceptions of embodiment, defending the greater interest of the second. I argue as well that judgments of the body's significance in cognition do not, as contestants on both sides of the debate often insist, depend on showing the body to be a constituent in cognition.

BOTANDO CORPO, (DES)FAZENDO GÊNERO. UMA FERRAMENTA PARA A PESQUISA-INTERVENÇÃO NA EDUCAÇÃO

Esse artigo apresenta o percurso de experimentação de uma metodologia de pesquisa-intervenção no campo da educação escolar, com ênfase para o estudo das relações de gênero, sexualidade e gerações em interseccionalidades com outros marcadores sociais de identidade e diferença. Buscou-se com o presente estudo compreender como determinadas posições de sujeito se produzem e quais mecanismos de inteligibilidade e negociações de significados encontram-se presentes em determinados contextos da educação escolar, no mesmo instante em que nos alojamos na perspectiva tática da reversibilidade das formas de objetivação das subjetividades e das desigualdades sociais decorrentes destes discursos através da formulação de ferramentas para a pesquisa-intervenção. Os resultados dessa experimentação metodológica apontam que pesquisa-intervir pode funcionar no sentido de alerta a que estamos ativamente envolvidos na disputa dos processos de significação do corpo, gênero e sexualidade cotidianos.

Club and Courtyard: Study on the Intersection of Bollywood Item Numbers and 'Hijra'Dance Tradition

This article attempts to find a common space between Bollywood item numbers and hijra (transgender) dance performances exploring gender, sexuality and the idea that significance of body is especially problematic for these dancers. Constantly vulnerable to be presented as a disembodied ideal, these dancing bodies reveal a counter movement towards an understanding of dance as a bodily grounded art form. The article also traces the role of ritual and Dionysian ecstasy in their dance forms and different treatments in terms of display. It is the connection between the dancing body, desire, creativity and consciousness that occupies their center of rhythmic poetics. The dancer is preoccupied with dance as a fusion between eroticism and ritual. Transforming into a concrete and active natural, the dancer attains agency and subjectivity.

A imagem do corpo na tragédia antiga: uma visualidade verbal

Neste estudo duas tragédias de Sófocles e duas de Sêneca são analisadas com o objetivo de identificar a visualidade dada ao corpo através da palavra, a imagem construída para o corpo da personagem, seus níveis de sentido e reverberação no texto e na cena. Essas informações podem ser caracterizadas como rubrica interna, pois são dados que corroboram na construção do espetáculo. Assim, estrutura e conteúdo se engendram potencializando a significação do corpo em cena quer pela sua presença quer por uma visualidade verbal, figurando uma ocupação semântica, a qual se configura como uma das marcas do teatro antigo.Palavras-chave:corpo, palavra, teatro

Body as Site of Ethic

Traditional ethical discourses give little significance to the role of body, and highlight has been largely on human mind and consciousness. The idea of good and bad, right and wrong, desirable and undesirable—as binaries—is seen as articulated through the latter. Philosophical theories that articulate the significance of body and movement are very few—phenomenology as one among these few. Body, as site for ethic, calls for some significant philosophical considerations. The paper attempts to join phenomenological theorizing on lived-body and engages with the issues of moral desirability. It also argues that moral discourse as structurally built on the idea of reciprocity is inadvertently about first-person lived-bodies interacting with one another.

Body of Lyrical Subject in the Poetry of Birutė Pūkelevičiūtė and Idea Vilariño

The article focuses on the significance of body in the process of (auto)creation of lyrical subject in the poetry of two authors: Lithuanian Birutė Pūkeleviciūtė and Uruguayan Idea Vilarino. Both of them belong to the second half of XX century and are one of the most important female poets in the poetry of Uruguay and Lithuania, because they focused on erotic poetry and predomination of woman as a lyrical subject. Body is one of the most significant aspects of their poetry: lyrical subject contemplates his own body and uses it as a way to understand himself and the world that surrounds him. Pūkeleviciūtė uses motives related to religion, nature and maternity – typical aspects, related with feminine voice; meanwhile Vilarino abandons the stereotypical aspects and bases her poetry on almost non-metaphorical language. In the poetry of these two poets body is understood as a medium between the lyrical subject and the world. Due to its relation with the Other (usually the loved man) it enables the connection of lyrical subject and the world: the participation of the Other and the feeling of love are essential in the poetry of Vilarino and Pūkeleviciūtė. The idea of body as a medium between lyrical subject and his surroundings relates the poetry of these two poets with the most important ideas of phenomenology, that emphasize the importance of communication and connection between different objects. Keywords : body, lyrical subject, Idea Vilarino, Birutė Pūkeleviciūtė, phenomenology DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.15823/zz.2014.033

Height matters: practicing consumer agency, gender, and body politics

The significance of body and gender in the formation of consumers’ identities and agencies has been widely scrutinized. Nevertheless, this study argues that this formation is not fully understood, unless the role of height is taken into account. It leans on a practice-based perspective and critical auto-ethnographic methodology so as to examine how a distinct agency is fabricated for a short-sized female body by a whole range of social, material, and sensory practices that are continuously enacted across various domains of life. It thereby adds to the existing literature on body, gender, and consumer agency by way of incorporating height into critical inquiries this far mostly concerned with weight; by way of materializing and sensorializing the fabrication of an embodied consumer agency this far addressed in visual terms; and by way of considering everyday life as the site in which it continuously unfolds. These insights bear important implications for the development of body politics.

Court jesters of the GDR: the political clowns-theatre of Wenzel & Mensching

ABSTRACTThe Da Da eR clown productions of Hans-Eckardt Wenzel and Steffen Mensching were deemed too risky for publication in East Germany (the GDR) and have largely remained a secret among the initiated. Originally members of the Liedertheater (song theatre) group ‘Karls Enkel’, Wenzel and Mensching branched out from 1982 onwards into the realm of clowns, acquainting themselves with the history and theory of this theatrical tradition from commedia dell'arte through to Karl Valentin. With their masks, parodic linguistic hybrids and awareness of the particular significance of body, time and space that constitutes the clown's chronotope (Bakhtin 1981), they created a grotesque mise-en-scène from which to comment on the last years of the GDR, finally laying the dying state to rest in a chorus of laughter in 1989. This article will also show how Wenzel and Mensching dealt artistically with the abrupt shift from socialist to capitalist society in the 1990s after the fall of the Berlin Wall.

The Significance of Body and Resurrection in the Roman Catholic Order of Christian Funerals

The Significance of Body and Resurrection in the Roman Catholic Order of Christian Funerals

The Emperor's New Clothes: The Naked Body and Theories of Performance

In the past few decades, naked bodies have taken the stage to aggressively signal the power of theater and performance. In the experiments of The Living Theater and productions such as Dionysus in '69, as well as in much of the body art of the 1980s, and early 1990s, the naked body was presumed to organize a dramaturgical site from which both a political charge and a seductive promise could be launched. The body bared was perceived as enabling the stage and the social. Looking back at these naked bodies from the perspective of the new millennium, we can understand the hyperbolic proclamations of the body's significance as a kind of last hurraw of the capabilities of the flesh to establish public and civic powers as well as sovereign semiotic ones. However, rather than bathing in the rosyfingered dawn of a new age, as they imagined, these bodies were actually washing up onto the stage, like whales and dolphins now do on our beaches, to offer an image of their demise. As it turns out, they were prescient in their insistence. By the late 1990s, the body could no longer set the site for the generation of meaning; instead, it had become a theater of operations where medical, genetic, and virtual systems took it as their stage. Moreover, the attendant practices of theater, or performance, were challenged by the critical analogue of the virtual. Staging the naked body both provoked and was inscribed by revolutionary attitudes toward the gender and sexual systems it signified. Within the past decades, new theoretical and performative strategies concerning gender and sexual practices have redefined our understanding of how performance, even more, representation itself may mean. Moving alongside the parade of nudes, from Julian Beck to Tim Miller, we might review just how the notions of theatricality, performance, and performativity were formed, both on stage and in the culture at large. Hopefully, this close encounter of the three kinds will provide an understanding of how, in the late twentieth century, a revitalization of the sense of performance has signaled its demise.

The Significance of Bodies in Soseki's Kokoro

S INCE the time it first appeared, Natsume Soseki's RH El*AU Kokoro 6 I (The Heart, 1914) has been the subject of a wide range of theoretical and historical studies; the last decade has seen a particularly productive upsurge in interest among literary critics in both Japan and the West. Among other things, critics have suggested that there are links between the novel, its canonization as a literary text representing modem Japan, and nation-state formation.' But although Soseki (1867-1916) is often regarded as having articulated the major problems and potentialities in the Meiji intellectual field, to date the depictions of intense physicality between his literary characters have gone largely unnoticed. His concern with corporeality is an underrated manifestation of his more general engagement with the problems of his times, and a reading of his depictions of the physical body as part and parcel of the wider body politic will, I

Intra-and intersexual interactions at breeding burrows in the horned beetle, Coprophanaeus ensifer

Coprophanaeus ensifer is a large horned beetle in which, in contrast to many other horned beetles, both males and females possess a long head horn. The species is a carrion feeder and has a developed nesting behaviour including provisioning the nest with larval food. Interactions between individuals at breeding burrows were observed in terraria. Both intra- and intersexual fights were common. In males fighting time was correlated with horn size. Although the horn size distribution of males was platykurtic there was no clear evidence of dimorphism in behaviour. Males tried to copulate with all females but only a few attempts with large females resulted in a copulation. All males actively tried to copulate but larger males were more successful. In each experiment individuals starting nesting behaviour were usually the largest ones. The significance of body and horn size is discussed with special emphasis on female horns and fighting behaviour.