{"product_id":"cultural-bodies-isbn-9780631225843","title":"Cultural Bodies","description":"\u003ci\u003eCultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique collection that integrates two increasingly key areas of social and cultural research: the body and ethnography. \u003cbr\u003e \u003cul\u003e \u003cli\u003eBreaks new ground in an area of study that continues to be a central theme of debate and research across the humanities and social sciences\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eDraws on ethnography as a useful means of exploring our everyday social and cultural environments\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eConstitutes an important step in developing two key areas of study, the body and ethnography, and the relationship between them\u003c\/li\u003e \u003cli\u003eBrings together an international and multi-disciplinary team of scholars\u003c\/li\u003e \u003c\/ul\u003e  Acknowledgements. \u003cp\u003eNotes on Contributors.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIntroduction.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart I: Ethnography:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e1. Inscriptions of Love: Les Back (Goldsmiths College).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e2. From Catwalk to Catalogue: Male Fashion Models, Masculinity and Identity: Joan Entwistle (University of Essex).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e3. Reading Racialized Bodies: Learning to See Difference: Suki Ali (Goldsmiths College).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e4. Narratives of Embodiment: Body, Aging and Career in Royal Ballet Dancers: Steven P. Wainwright and Bryan S. Turner (King’s College; University of Cambridge).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart II: Ethnography and Theory:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e5. Being a Body in a Cultural Way: Understanding the Cultural in the Embodiment of Dance: Sally Ann Allen Ness (University of California, Riverside).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e6. Bare Life: Nigel Thrift (University of Bristol).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e7. Lolo’s Breasts, Cyborgism and a Wooden Christ: Simon Shepherd (Central School).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e8. Talking Back to Neuro-reductionism: Emily Martin (New York University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePart III: Theory:\u003c\/b\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e9. Eating for a Living: A Rhizo-ethology of Bodies: Elspeth Probyn (University of Sydney).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e10. Health and the Holy in the Afro Brazilian Candomblé: Thomas Csordas (Case Western Reserve University).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e11. Here Comes the Sun: Shedding Light on the Cultural Body: Simon Carter and Mike Michael (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Goldsmiths College).\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003e12. Reaching the Body: Future Directions: Jamilah Ahmed.\u003c\/p\u003e \u003cp\u003eIndex\u003c\/p\u003e  \"An interdisciplinary text that offers cutting-edge theoretical and methodological means for analyzing, understanding, and imagining how the body materializes in cultural historical context and practice.\" \u003ci\u003eHeidi Nast, DePaul University\u003c\/i\u003e \u003c!--end--\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e\"Bringing together some of the most challenging contemporary research, this theoretical, empirical, experimental work presents a unique interdisciplinary understanding of how the body speaks, moves and interacts. It is fascinating, making visible some of the unknown and unseen parts and wholes of the body by exploring the materiality of physicality.\" \u003ci\u003eBeverley Skeggs, University of Manchester\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cb\u003eHelen Thomas\u003c\/b\u003e is Professor of Sociology of Dance and Culture at Goldsmiths College. Her publications include \u003ci\u003eDance, Modernity and Culture: Explorations in the Sociology of Dance\u003c\/i\u003e (1995), \u003ci\u003eDance and the City\u003c\/i\u003e (editor, 1997), and \u003ci\u003eThe Body, Dance and Cultural Theory\u003c\/i\u003e (2003).\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e \u003cb\u003eJamilah Ahmed\u003c\/b\u003e gained her PhD from Goldsmiths College. She is currently an editor at Sage Publications.\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003ci\u003eCultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory\u003c\/i\u003e is a unique collection that integrates two increasingly key areas of social and cultural research: the body and ethnography. “The body” continues to be a central theme of debate and research across the humanities and social sciences and in subjects such as gender, race, identity, and science and technology. However, existing literature on the body has taken a largely theoretical direction. \u003ci\u003eCultural Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e breaks new ground by refusing to neglect the experiential and the empirical.\u003cbr\u003e \u003cp\u003e Bringing together an international and multidisciplinary team of scholars, \u003ci\u003eCultural Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e draws on ethnography as a useful means of exploring our everyday social and cultural environments and, in doing so, demonstrates the constant need for researchers and their research to be made accountable to readers. In this way, ethnography reveals as much about the frameworks of social research as it does about the societies that they move in and out of. By focusing on the body and ethnography, \u003ci\u003eCultural Bodies\u003c\/i\u003e constitutes an important step in developing these two key areas of study and the relationship between them.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Wiley-Blackwell","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47989012005093,"sku":"NP9780631225843","price":176.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780631225843.jpg?v=1761782426","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/cultural-bodies-isbn-9780631225843","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}