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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... animal to appease God for the act of slaughter . In turn , the animals appropriate for the table and the altar are herbivorous rather than carnivorous , as though the animals themselves observed the injunction against slaughter , at ...
... animal proteins on the one hand , and the practice of human sacrifice and cannibalism , the evolution of ecclesiastical redistributive feasting , and the tabooing of the flesh of certain animals on the other , demonstrates the ...
... animals is eating less of the quintessential animal than eating its innards , again preserving the boundary between humans and animals despite the daily necessity of infringing it . This bound- ary is in turn reproduced ...