Ringmar, Erik Ivar2024-04-262024-04-262023Ringmar, E. (2023). Moving bodies: Embodied minds and the world that we made. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/97810092456619781009245630https://dx.doi.org/10.1017/9781009245661https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12154/2851Increasingly, we have come to live in our heads, leaving our bodies behind. The consequences have been as far-reaching as they have been devastating. This book employs several case studies – kings performing in ballets, sea captains dancing with natives, nationalists engaged in gymnastics exer cises – to explain what has been lost. These curious movements, we will discover, were ways to be, to think, to know, to imagine, and to will. They highlight the limits of historical explanations focusing on cultural factors and question currently fashionable “cultural” and “post-modern” perspec tives. Returning to our bodies and their movements enables us not only to explain historical actions in a new way, but also to understand ourselves better.eninfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccessBeingThinkingKnowingImaginingWillingAnthropologyHistoryPolitical ScienceBook10.1017/9781009245661N/AWOS:001064877800001WOS:001064877800002WOS:001064877800003WOS:001064877800004WOS:001064877800005WOS:001064877800006WOS:001064877800007