Carne Vale (Goodbye to Flesh?): Caribbean Carnival, Notions of the Flesh and Christian Ambivalence about the Body.

This paper interrogates the popular notions of sexuality that lay behind the women's bodily displays during Trinidad Carnival, the iconic Carnival experience in the region, and contrasts these to some Christian notions of the body and sexuality, which see the body ('the flesh') and sexuality, as pro...

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Published in:	Sexuality & Culture Vol. 15; no. 4; pp. 361 - 375
Main Author:	Perkins, Anna
Format:	Article
Published:	Springer Nature Dec2011
Subjects:	Carnival Christianity Lent Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint > Theology Incarnation
Online Access:	View this record in EBSCOhost