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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... Shape of Human Beings Bibliography Index ix xi 1 9 22 37 54 66 79 89 95 List of Figures 1.1 Encyclopedic Man 2.1 Deciphering a meal Contents.
... human beings cannot do without the practice of anthropomorphism. If they were to refrain from it entirely, the world ... shape to human institutions, which I think we must revive if we are to defend ourselves against the equal excesses ...
... human shape in favor of the measured – number, line, sign, code, index. Everywhere anthropomorphism, the creative force in the civic shaping of human beings, is in retreat. Such a fate would be unthinkable were it not in fact ...
... human body and its parts and from the human senses and passions. Thus, head for top or beginning; the brow and ... shape of a woman's body. The anthill is the sexual organ of the world's body and its clitoris is a termite hill. Being ...
... human body is made up of the elements of water, earth, air and fire, so too ... shape of anthills, making rooms with connecting passages, and they began to ... human lips the concept of life in motion, of the transposition of forces, of ...
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 |