Hybrid Knowledge in Сontemporary Practices of Art Therapy

Student: Bolshenkova Karina

Educational Programme: Cultural Studies (Bachelor)

Final Grade: 8

Year of Graduation: 2017

The final work problematizes the relationship between nature and culture in the heterogeneous discourse of therapeutic effects of different kind of arts. To determine the nature of this relationship, the final paper refers to conceptual metaphors and academic inventions of actor-network theory (ANT). Using ANT, the work articulates the concept of “hybrid knowledge” inside the CAM (Complementary and Alternative medicine) and its differences from the “hybrid discourse” and another related concepts in semiotics and postcolonial theories. This concept on lesser level used to describe a local communicative practices that includes different languages, sociolects, ethnolects and functional styles of speech, and on higher level it is used to describe a discursive constructions presenting the features of hybrid activity on the border lines of nature and culture.

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