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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... called the mouth of the granary and the rest of the granary was called the world's belly . The interior was divided into four partitioned chambers above and below numbering eight in all . The eight compartments contained the eight seeds ...
... called primitives ( our archaic ancestors ) on the ground that they lack the interest that we have in the objective classification of things , events , and relationships from which science is built . The cognitive compe- tence exhibited ...
... called Jove , the first god of the so - called greater gentes , who meant to tell them something by the hiss of his bolts and the clap of his thunder . And thus they began to exercise that natural curiosity which is the daughter of ...