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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... symbolism to which the right and left hand are assimilated as part of the world's order : How could man's body , the microcosm , escape the law of polarity which governs everything ? Society and the whole universe have a side which is ...
... symbolism and promises a link - up with more obviously symbolic systems of purity . ( Douglas , 1970 : 48 ) - Food in our mouths is where it should be ; visible as we chew or on our chins it is disgusting . Sloppy eaters risk social and ...
... symbolic expression of its beliefs concerning the sources , sustenance and potential threats to the orderly con ... symbolism , a search whose reasonableness may be conveyed through an analysis of the classical concept of the body ...