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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... exchange of selfish and calculated interests between individuals who sense no deeper bond among them . Rather , sociability rests upon our reciprocal experience and upon the vulnerability and openness to one another that arises from the ...
... exchanges in a two - tier system : ( 1 ) the subsistence economy ; and ( 2 ) the prestige or ceremonial economy . Even ... exchange between the two systems , it was regulated , as Mary Douglas ( Douglas and Isherwood , 1979 ) shows , so ...
... exchange that binds people together for the sake of everything and anything else that they may undertake . The market is ill pre- pared to serve the body politic in respect of the new economy of biomedical artifacts , operations , and ...