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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... means ; it must then build itself an instrument , and it projects thereby around itself a cultural world . ( Merleau ... mean only to deepen the connections between biology and civic culture which arise precisely because the human ...
... means ' It is the spoken word . ' Soy also means ' seven , ' as the Spirit who spoke as he wove was seventh in the series of ancestors . ( Griaule , 1965 : 28 ) It was , however , through the ant that the seventh ancestor passed on the ...
... means flying in the face of all the liberal- warnings about the errors and monstrosities of totalitarianism . But ... mean to imply that the industrialized social- ist economies have been any the less dangerous to the human future ...