Embodied Gender: The Process Of Performative And Making Self In Guichi Nuo

Based on Cartesian physical and mental dichotomy,the body is often seen as an engraved and shaped social product,while these researches neglect the possibility that the body as the subject,especially the gendered bodies,interacts with the outside world.This thesis takes Guichi Nuo as an example,by analyzing the different ways in which gendered bodies in Jin Pu Sa are watched or segregated,to show how they express,understand and respond to these rules.And it tries to explain through embodiment how they understand Nuo and build the relationship between the self to the other and to the world.In the local life of Guichi,for the local people,Nuo is not an entertainment for human as scholars said,but the "divine drama" to Jin Pu Sa.Because Pu Sa enjoy jollification,people sing nuo drama and try to create a happy and lively scene in order to Jin Pu Sa,and Nuo drama is only the part of Jin Pu Sa.And the reason that locals expressed and practiced Nuo as Jin Pu Sa,for them,is that nuo is not a knowledge which needs to be recognized,but embodiment practicce that realizes communication and interaction between man and god,self and world.According to the difference of units in Jin Pu Sa,there are two types of Jin Pu Sa: Jin Pu Sa based on lineage and family.In the context of Jin Pu Sa lineage based,the bodies of people doing Nuo are not only the representative of the whole lineage to Jin Pu Sa,but also perceived by the villagers as the object of vision in family based Jin Pu Sa;In the context of family based Jin Pu Sa,villagers as body-subject which are both the object to express the relationship between human and gods,and the subject of perceiving and feeling of Jin Pu Sa.There are obvious gender differences in the process of perception and experience of Nuo for local people.Nuo dramas in Guichi including faces of Nuo,and characters of the Nuo drama are all have male and female,however,doing Nuo only includes males.Genders of different ages have different attitudes towards Nuo,and females are more sensitive to the taboo discourses of Jin Pu Sa.The reason for these differences is largely due to the different treatments of gender bodies in Jin Pu Sa,which affects their perceptual experience in the process of Jin Pu Sa.