Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory is a unique collection that integrates two increasingly key areas of social and cultural research: the body and ethnography.
- Breaks new ground in an area of study that continues to be a central theme of debate and research across the humanities and social sciences
- Draws on ethnography as a useful means of exploring our everyday social and cultural environments
- Constitutes an important step in developing two key areas of study, the body and ethnography, and the relationship between them
- Brings together an international and multi-disciplinary team of scholars
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgements.
Notes on Contributors.
Introduction.
Part I: Ethnography: .
1. Inscriptions of Love: Les Back (Goldsmiths College).
2. From Catwalk to Catalogue: Male Fashion Models, Masculinity and Identity: Joan Entwistle (University of Essex).
3. Reading Racialized Bodies: Learning to See Difference: Suki Ali (Goldsmiths College).
4. Narratives of Embodiment: Body, Aging and Career in Royal Ballet Dancers: Steven P. Wainwright and Bryan S. Turner (King’s College; University of Cambridge).
Part II: Ethnography and Theory: .
5. Being a Body in a Cultural Way: Understanding the Cultural in the Embodiment of Dance: Sally Ann Allen Ness (University of California, Riverside).
6. Bare Life: Nigel Thrift (University of Bristol).
7. Lolo’s Breasts, Cyborgism and a Wooden Christ: Simon Shepherd (Central School).
8. Talking Back to Neuro-reductionism: Emily Martin (New York University).
Part III: Theory: .
9. Eating for a Living: A Rhizo-ethology of Bodies: Elspeth Probyn (University of Sydney).
10. Health and the Holy in the Afro Brazilian Candomblé: Thomas Csordas (Case Western Reserve University).
11. Here Comes the Sun: Shedding Light on the Cultural Body: Simon Carter and Mike Michael (London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine; Goldsmiths College).
12. Reaching the Body: Future Directions: Jamilah Ahmed.
Index
Über den Autor
Helen Thomas is Professor of Sociology of Dance and Culture at Goldsmiths College. Her publications include Dance, Modernity and Culture: Explorations in the Sociology of Dance (1995), Dance and the City (editor, 1997), and The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory (2003).
Jamilah Ahmed gained her Ph D from Goldsmiths College. She is currently an editor at Sage Publications.
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