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" Cultural Bodies : "
Helen Thomas
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BL
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731067
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b550851
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Helen Thomas
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Cultural Bodies : : Ethnography and Theory.\ Helen Thomas
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| Publication Statement
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Hoboken: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd., 2008
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(330 pages)
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0470776943
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: 9780470776940
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| Contents
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Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory; Contents; Acknowledgments; Notes on Contributors; Introduction; Part I Ethnography; 1 Inscriptions of Love; 2 From Catwalk to Catalog: Male Fashion Models, Masculinity, and Identity; 3 Reading Racialized Bodies: Learning to See Difference; 4 Narratives of Embodiment: Body, Aging, and Career in Royal Ballet Dancers; Part Ii Theory; 5 Being a Body in a Cultural Way: Understanding the Cultural in the Embodiment of Dance; 6 Bare Life; 7 Lolo's Breasts, Cyborgism, and a Wooden Christ; 8 Talking Back to Neuro-reductionism; Part Iii Theory and Ethnography. 9 Eating for a Living: A Rhizo-ethology of Bodies10 Health and the Holy in the Afro-Brazilian Candomblé; 11 Here Comes the Sun: Shedding Light on the Cultural Body; 12 Reaching the Body: Future Directions; Subject Index; Name Index.
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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.
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Ethnology.
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Human body.
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Social sciences.
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GN298.H454 2008
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Helen Thomas
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Jamilah Ahmed
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