Saving Face: Enfacement, Shame, Theology (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781409436911)

This book discusses questions concerning what face is, how important face is in human life and relationships, and how we might understand face, both as a physical phenomenon and as a series of socially-inflected symbols and metaphors about the self and the body. Examining what face means in terms of inclusion and exclusion in contemporary human society and how it is related to shame, Pattison reveals what the experience of people who have difficulties with faces tell us about our society, our understandings of, and our reactions to face.

Author: Stephen Pattison
ISBN-10: 1409436918
ISBN-13: 9781409436911
Publisher: Routledge
Language: English
Published: 08/30/2013
Pages: 216
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.06lbs
Size: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.56d