| Description |
x, 314 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
1. Inscriptions of Love / Les Back -- Photography by Paul Halliday -- 2. From Catwalk to Catalog: Male Fashion Models, Masculinity, and Identity / Joanne Entwistle -- 3. Reading Racialized Bodies: Learning to See Difference / Suki Ali -- 4. Narratives of Embodiment: Body, Aging, and Career in Royal Ballet Dancers / Steven P. Wainwright and Bryan S. Turner -- 5. Being a Body in a Cultural Way: Understanding the Cultural in the Embodiment of Dance / Sally Ann Allen Ness -- 6. Bare Life / Nigel Thrift -- 7. Lolo's Breasts, Cyborgism, and a Wooden Christ / Simon Shepherd -- 8. Talking Back to Neuro-reductionism / Emily Martin -- 9. Eating for a Living: A Rhizo-ethology of Bodies / Elspeth Probyn -- 10. Health and the Holy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomble / Thomas J. Csordas -- 11. Here Comes the Sun: Shedding Light on the Cultural Body / Simon Carter and Mike Michael -- 12. Reaching the Body: Future Directions / Jamilah Ahmed |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Human body -- Social aspects.
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Ethnology.
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| Author |
Thomas, Helen, 1947-
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Ahmed, Jamilah.
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| LC no. |
2003014909 |
| ISBN |
0631225846 alkaline paper |
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0631225854 paperback alkaline paper |
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