Five Bodies: Re-figuring RelationshipsFive Bodies offers an introduction to some of the most urgent contemporary concerns within the sociology of the body. The book was first published in 1985 in the USA by Cornell University Press, and was nominated for the John Porter Award (sponsored by the Canadian Sociology and Anthropology Association). A path breaking book, it offered a framework for the growing field of the sociology of the body and opened up ′the body′ for sociological research. This new edition (the previous edition was published by Cornell University Press (1985) has been substantially revised and updated to address today′s issues of the body in modern life, community and politics. John O′Neill examines how embodied selves and relationships are being re-shaped and re-figured and how the embodied figures of the polity, economy and society represent the contested notions of identity, desire, wholeness and fragmentation. He focuses upon those cultural practices through which we map our macro-micro worlds: · articulating a cosmology · a body politic · a productivensumptive economy · a bio-technological frontier of human design and transplantation |
From inside the book
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... anthropomorphism' or of becoming-human. It never loses sight of the interaction between our ways of thinking bodies through society and thinking/doing society through bodies (O'Neill, 2002a). It therefore never privileges patriarchal ...
... Anthropomorphism. Attribution of human form or character. a. Ascription of a human form and attributes to the Deity. b. Ascription of a human attribute or personality to anything impersonal or irrational. (Oxford English Dictionary) ...
... anthropomorphism. If they were to refrain from it entirely, the world would assume a character more alien than that of any deity. Therefore anthropomorphism is an essential human response; it is a creative force in the civic shaping of ...
... anthropomorphism. We are no longer reflected in our work, our institutions, or our environment. The abstraction of modern experience is based upon the removal of the human shape in favor of the measured – number, line, sign, code, index ...
... anthropomorphized and thereby domesticated everything around them. The distance between the categorical schemas of modern science and those of our early ... anthropomorphism – and not rationalism – is the necessary first 10 Five Bodies.
Contents
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Social Bodies | 22 |
The Body Politic | 37 |
Consumer Bodies | 54 |
Medical Bodies | 66 |
Conclusion The Future Shape of Human Beings | 79 |
Bibliography | 89 |
Index | 95 |