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Body Studies : An Introduction

By: (Author) Margo DeMello

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Ksh 31,500.00

Format: Hardback or Cased Book

ISBN-10: 0415699290

ISBN-13: 9780415699297

Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Imprint: Routledge

Country of Manufacture: GB

Country of Publication: GB

Publication Date: Dec 5th, 2013

Print length: 366 Pages

Weight: 840 grams

Product Classification: Cultural studies
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Anthropology

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Body Studies is a comprehensive textbook on the social and cultural uses and meanings of the body, for use in undergraduate college courses. This book provides a wealth of pedagogic features for ease of teaching and learning: ethnographic case studies, boxes covering contemporary controversies, news stories, and legislative issues, as well as chapter summaries, further reading recommendations and key terms.

In recent years, body studies has expanded rapidly, becoming an increasingly popular field of study within anthropology, sociology, and cultural studies. This groundbreaking textbook takes the topics and theories from these disciplines, and combines them into one single, easily accessible text for students.

Body Studies is a comprehensive textbook on the social and cultural uses and meanings of the body, for use in undergraduate college courses. Its clear, accessible chapters explore, among other things:

  • the measurement and classification of the human body
  • illness and healing
  • the racialized body
  • the gendered body
  • cultural perceptions of beauty
  • new bodily technologies.

This book investigates how power plays an important role in the uses, views, and shapes of the body—as well as how the body is invested with meaning. Body Studies provides a wealth of pedagogic features for ease of teaching and learning: ethnographic case studies, boxes covering contemporary controversies, news stories, and legislative issues, as well as chapter summaries, further reading recommendations, and key terms. This book will appeal to students and teachers of sociology, anthropology, cultural studies, women’s studies, gender studies, and ethnic studies.


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