Bodies, Gods and Other Imponderables: Cross-Cultural Metalogues

By Geoffrey Lloyd

Through a dialogue between a philosopher and an anthropologist, one a specialist in ancient Greek and Chinese thought, the other in Amazonian Indigenous peoples, Geoffrey Lloyd and Aparecida Vila a revise our understanding of beliefs and behaviours considered counter-intuitive in the Western world. These include ideas about the body and its antitheses, dreams, sickness, gods and the narratives and myths which are used to untangle these concepts. What is distinctive about the approach adopted here is that it poses radical questions about the nature of the problems themselves. This turns the study into a resource for the revision of many of our own current presuppositions.

• Format: Library Binding
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1807580415
• ISBN13: 9781807580414
• Release Date: October 2026
• Publisher: Berghahn Books
• Length: 144 Pages