Culture Practice And The Body

Author : Christian Meyer
Publisher : J.B. Metzler
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-08-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 3476046052

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Culture, Practice, and the Body by Christian Meyer Pdf

Human sociality is shaped and realized most notably in embodied practices of interpersonal interaction. At the same time, the social nature of human beings is open for cultural influences. This book inspects the foundations of human sociality theoretically drawing on recent debates in sociology, anthropology, and linguistics, and empirically by the example of interactions on the central square of a Wolof village in Northwestern Senegal. Menschliche Sozialität gestaltet und realisiert sich zuallererst in den vielfältigen verkörperten Praktiken zwischenmenschlicher Interaktionen. Die Sozialnatur des Menschen ist dabei offen für kulturelle Einflüsse. Dieses Buch inspiziert die Grundlagen menschlicher Sozialität theoretisch anhand jüngerer Diskussionen in der Soziologie, Ethnologie, Anthropologie und Linguistik und empirisch am Beispiel von Interaktionen auf dem zentralen Platz eines Dorfes der Wolof Nordwestsenegals.

Author : Christian Meyer
Publisher : Springer
Page : 345 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2018-07-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783476046062

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Culture, Practice, and the Body by Christian Meyer Pdf

Human sociality is shaped and realized most notably in embodied practices of interpersonal interaction. At the same time, the social nature of human beings is open for cultural influences. This book inspects the foundations of human sociality theoretically drawing on recent debates in sociology, anthropology, and linguistics, and empirically by the example of interactions on the central square of a Wolof village in Northwestern Senegal. Menschliche Sozialität gestaltet und realisiert sich zuallererst in den vielfältigen verkörperten Praktiken zwischenmenschlicher Interaktionen. Die Sozialnatur des Menschen ist dabei offen für kulturelle Einflüsse. Dieses Buch inspiziert die Grundlagen menschlicher Sozialität theoretisch anhand jüngerer Diskussionen in der Soziologie, Ethnologie, Anthropologie und Linguistik und empirisch am Beispiel von Interaktionen auf dem zentralen Platz eines Dorfes der Wolof Nordwestsenegals.

Author : Mike Featherstone,Mike Hepworth,Bryan S Turner
Publisher : SAGE
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 1991-01-10
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781848609150

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The Body by Mike Featherstone,Mike Hepworth,Bryan S Turner Pdf

This challenging volume reasserts the centrality of the body within social theory as a means to understanding the complex interrelations between nature, culture and society. At a theoretical level, the volume explores the origins of a social theory of the body in sources ranging from the work of Nietzsche to contemporary feminist theory. The importance of a theoretical understanding of the body to social and cultural analysis of contemporary societies is demonstrated through specific case studies. These range from the expression of the emotions, romantic love, dietary practice, consumer culture, fitness and beauty, to media images of women and sexuality.

Author : Patricia Vertinsky,Jennifer Hargreaves
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 323 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2006-11-28
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781134227044

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Physical Culture, Power, and the Body by Patricia Vertinsky,Jennifer Hargreaves Pdf

During the past decade, there has been an outpouring of books on 'the body' in society, but none has focused as specifically on physical culture - that is, cultural practices such as sport and dance within which the moving physical body is central. Questions are raised about the character of the body, specifically the relation between the ‘natural’ body, the ‘constructed’ body and the ‘alien’ or ‘virtual’ body. The themes of the book are wide in scope, including: physical culture and the fascist body sport and the racialised body sport medicine, health and the culture of risk the female Muslim sporting body, power, and politics experiencing the disabled sporting body embodied exhibitions of striptease and sport the social logic of sparring sport, girls and the neoliberal body. Physical Culture, Power, and the Body aims to break down disciplinary boundaries in its theoretical approaches and its readership. The author’s muli-disciplinary backgrounds, demonstrate the widespread topicality of physical culture and the body.

Author : Joanna R. Sofaer
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : Science
ISBN : 0521521467

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The Body as Material Culture by Joanna R. Sofaer Pdf

Examines the two distinct approaches taken when examining archaeological remains, one based on science, the other on social theory.

Author : Stephanie Springgay,Debra Freedman
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Art
ISBN : 0820486868

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Curriculum and the Cultural Body by Stephanie Springgay,Debra Freedman Pdf

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Author : Heinz Tschachler,Maureen Devine,Michael Draxlbauer
Publisher : LIT Verlag Münster
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Body, Human
ISBN : 3825867625

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The EmBodyment of American Culture by Heinz Tschachler,Maureen Devine,Michael Draxlbauer Pdf

American culture has literally become fixated on the body at the same time that the body has emerged as a key term within critical and cultural theory. Contributions thus address the body as a site of the cultural construction of various identities, which are themselves enacted, negotiated, or subverted through bodily practices. Contributions come from literary and cultural studies, film and media studies, history and sociology, and women studies, and are representative of many theoretical positions, hermeneutic, historical, structuralist, feminist, postmodernist. They deal with representations and discursifications of the body in a broad array of texts, in literature, the visual arts, theater, the performing arts, film and mass media, science and technology, as well as in various cultural practices.

Author : Justyna Jajszczok,Aleksandra Musial
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 0429264399

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The Body in History, Culture, and the Arts by Justyna Jajszczok,Aleksandra Musial Pdf

Author : Helen Thomas
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2013-04-24
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781134329243

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The Body and Everyday Life by Helen Thomas Pdf

In recent years, there has been an explosion of interest in the contemporary social study of the body which has raised important theoretical and methodological questions regarding traditional social and cultural analysis. It has also generated corporeal theories that highlight the fluid, shifting, yet situated character of the body in society. In turn, these corporeal theories have implications for social relations in an era of new technologies and global market economies. The Body and Everyday Life offers a lively and comprehensive introduction to the study of the body. It uses case studies in performance practices to examine the key concepts, methods and critical insights gained from this area. It includes sections on: ethnographies of the body bodies of performance performing gender the ageing performing body. This book clearly illustrates the complex relationships that exist between the body, society and everyday life, and considers the negative and positive implications for the development of future socio-cultural analysis in the field. It will be an invaluable introduction for students of sociology, body studies, gender studies, dance and performance, and cultural studies.

Author : Phillip Hancock
Publisher : Open University Press
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2000-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0335204139

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The Body, Culture and Society by Phillip Hancock Pdf

"Academics and undergraduates alike will welcome this accessible guide to a rich variety of body-related matters. . . an informed and stimulating introduction to the subject." - Chris Shilling, University of Portsmouth * How and why has the body come to the forefront of sociology? * How is the body conceptualized in relation to issues of culture and identity? * What are the limitations of current work on the sociology of the body? Over the past two decades, a concern with the human body has grown steadily within the social sciences. This timely volume, written by a team of lecturers actively researching and teaching in the field, provides a clear introduction to the significance of the corporeal dimension of life within contemporary sociological thought. It outlines many of the reasons behind this increased sociological fascination with the body, identifying it with a series of broader developments within the current cultural sensibility. Succeeding chapters, each individually authored, examine the place of the body within a range of substantive areas of sociological research - for example disability, consumption, work and old age - developing, in turn, a critical analysis of current research in these areas. With the use of jargon kept to a minimum, and with each chapter providing suggestions for further reading, The Body, Culture and Society is an accessible and lively introduction to the body from a sociological perspective.

Author : Nathan J. Keirns,Heather Griffiths,Eric Strayer,Susan Cody-Rydzewski,Gail Scaramuzzo,Tommy Sadler,Sally Vyain,Jeff D. Bry,Faye Jones
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2015-04-24
Category : Sociology
ISBN : 1947172905

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Introduction to Sociology 2e by Nathan J. Keirns,Heather Griffiths,Eric Strayer,Susan Cody-Rydzewski,Gail Scaramuzzo,Tommy Sadler,Sally Vyain,Jeff D. Bry,Faye Jones Pdf

"Introduction to Sociology 2e adheres to the scope and sequence of a typical, one-semester introductory sociology course. It offers comprehensive coverage of core concepts, foundational scholars, and emerging theories, which are supported by a wealth of engaging learning materials. The textbook presents detailed section reviews with rich questions, discussions that help students apply their knowledge, and features that draw learners into the discipline in meaningful ways. The second edition retains the book's conceptual organization, aligning to most courses, and has been significantly updated to reflect the latest research and provide examples most relevant to today's students. In order to help instructors transition to the revised version, the 2e changes are described within the preface."--Website of text.

Author : Elizabeth Ettorre
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 186 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-05-13
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781317155836

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Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health by Elizabeth Ettorre Pdf

Culture, Bodies and the Sociology of Health explores the boundaries between bodies and society with special reference to uncovering the cultural components of health and the ways in which bodies are categorized according to a form of culturally embedded 'health orthodoxy'. Illustrating the importance of contextualizing the body as a cultural entity, this book demonstrates that the spaces and boundaries between healthy bodies are becoming more diverse than ever before. The volumes international team of scholars engage with a range of issues surrounding the cultural construction of the body as a site of health and illness. As such, it will be of interest not only to sociologists, especially sociologists of health, but also to scholars of media and communication studies as well as cultural theorists.

Author : Carolyn Pedwell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 183 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2010-05-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135999698

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Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice by Carolyn Pedwell Pdf

"Feminism, Culture and Embodied Practice examines how cross cultural comparisons of embodied practices function as a rhetorical device - with particular theoretical, social and political effects - in a range of contemporary feminist texts. It asks: Why and how are cross-cultural links among these practices drawn by feminist theorists and commentators, and what do these analogies do? What knowledges, hierarchies and figurations do these comparisons produce, disrupt and/or reify in feminist theory, and how do such effects resonate within popular culture? Taking a relational web approach that focuses on unravelling the binary threads that link specific embodied practices within a wider representational community, this book highlights how we depend on and affect one another across cultural and geo-political contexts"--EBL.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9949774608

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Body, Personhood and Privacy: Perspectives on the Cultural Other and Human Experience by Anonim Pdf

Author : Jonathan Watson
Publisher : Taylor & Francis Group
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025122107

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Male Bodies by Jonathan Watson Pdf

How do men perceive their bodies? how can empirical study of the body inform our understanding of the social world of men? what are the implications of such understanding for public health?