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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... according to rationalist princi- ples . Rather , Vico , like Durkheim much later , saw that our ancestors neces- sarily thought the world with their gendered bodies , or with their families , since these and not the mind are the ground ...
... According to the Human Nerves of Sensation , the Four Rivers of the Water of Life South Stood the Nerves of the Eye . East in Rivers of bliss the Nerves of the Expansive Nostrils West , flowd the Parent Sense the Tongue . North stood ...
... according the attri- butes of holiness , contamination , and taboo where science might speak only of ' goodness of fit ' , or adequate generalization . There is little difference here . Things are holy inasmuch as they find their place ...