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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... Mary Douglas ( 1970 ; 1973a , b ; 1975 ; 1978 ) , both because they so nicely illustrate the bodily ties between individuals and institutions and because they help us to understand the relative claims of psychological and sociological ...
... Mary Douglas ( Douglas and Isherwood , 1979 ) shows , so that people did not amass subsistence goods at the expense of their neighbors . In fact , it is pos- sible to argue that the prestige economy had , through feasts , a redistribu ...
... Douglas , Mary ( 1970 ) Purity and Danger : An Analysis of Concepts of Pollution and Taboo . Harmondsworth : Penguin Books . Douglas , Mary ( 1973 ) Natural Symbols : Explorations in Cosmology . Harmondsworth : Penguin . Douglas ...