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 |
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... once more powerful and more fragile. No holocaust is greater than the one we consecrate to our machines built to destroy as much in peace as in war and which we never cease to improve for either end. As prosthetic gods, we lack any ...
... once again open the civilizational frontier, creating new powers and new dependencies in us. Humankind has wrapped itself in a science and technology whose omnipotence has delivered us from our childhood into a certain if uncomfortable ...
... once a hunter, now an old and blind villager of Lower Ogol. Just as the God Amma threw the stars out into space, so he threw from his hand a lump of clay that fell and flattened out in the shape of a woman's body. The anthill is the ...
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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 |