Cultural Bodies

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

Autorentext

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 PhD from Goldsmiths College.
She is currently an editor at Sage Publications.

Zusammenfassung
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

Inhalt

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