corporeography

Etymology

Coined by anthropologist Vicki Kirby in 1989, from corporeo- + -graphy.

noun

  1. An approach to research in which the researcher's bodily and emotional experiences are foregrounded.“I want to argue that the body is that “pre-post-erous space,” the site of a corporeography that conjoins the dynamic political economy of signification–its written surface and writing instrument.”