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"Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory" is a unique collection that integrates two increasingly key areas of social and cultural research: the body and ethnography. "The body" continues to be a central theme of debate and research across the humanities and social sciences and i...
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| Literature type: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9780470775837 |
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"Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory" is a unique collection that integrates two increasingly key areas of social and cultural research: the body and ethnography. "The body" continues to be a central theme of debate and research across the humanities and social sciences and in subjects such as gender, race, identity, and science and technology. However, existing literature on the body has taken a largely theoretical direction. "Cultural Bodies" breaks new ground by refusing to neglect the experiential and the empirical. Bringing together an international and multidisciplinary team of scholars, "Cultural Bodies" draws on ethnography as a useful means of exploring our everyday social and cultural environments and, in doing so, demonstrates the constant need for researchers and their research to be made accountable to readers. In this way, ethnography reveals as much about the frameworks of social research as it does about the societies that they move in and out of. By focusing on the body and ethnography, "Cultural Bodies" constitutes an important step in developing these two key areas of study and the relationship between them. |
| Carrier Form: | 1 online resource (x, 314 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and indexes. |
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9780470775837 0470775831 9780470776940 0470776943 9780631225843 0631225846 1281310859 9781281310859 |
| Index Number: | GN298 |
| CLC: | C955 |
| Contents: | Inscriptions of love / Les Back ; photography by Paul Halliday -- From catwalk to catalog : male fashion models, masculinity, and identity / Joanne Entwistle -- Reading racialized bodies : learning to see difference / Suki Ali -- Narratives of embodiment : body, aging, and career in Royal Ballet dancers / Steven P. Wainwright and Bryan S. Turner -- Being a body in a cultural way : understanding the cultural in the embodiment of dance / Sally Ann Allen Ness -- Bare life / Nigel Thrift -- Lolo's breasts, cyborgism, and a wooden Christ / Simon Shepherd -- Talking back to neuro-reductionism / Emily Martin -- Eating for a living : a rhizo-ethology of bodies / Elspeth Probyn -- Health and the holy in the Afro-Brazilian candomblé / Thomas J. Csordas -- Here comes the sun : shedding light on the cultural body / Simon Carter and Mike Michael -- Reaching the body : future directions / Jamilah Ahmed. |