1.

Record Nr.

UNISA996391218403316

Titolo

By the King. A proclamation touching the manufactures of playing-cards, and dice [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Imprinted at London, : by Robert Barker, printer to the Kings most excellent Maiestie : and by the assignes of Iohn Bill, 1637]

Descrizione fisica

2 sheets (versos blank)

Altri autori (Persone)

Charles, King of England,  <1600-1649.>

Soggetti

Playing card industry - Law and legislation - England

Dice

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Caption title.

Dated at end: ... White-hall, the fifteenth day of May, in the thirteenth yeare of our reign.

Imprint from colophon.

Arms 24; Steele notation: re- Letters 2) per- His.

Reproduction of original in the British Library.

Sommario/riassunto

eebo-0018



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910779415003321

Autore

Thomas Helen <1947-, >

Titolo

The body and everyday life / / Helen Thomas

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Abingdon, Oxon : , : Routledge, , 2013

ISBN

1-134-32924-5

0-203-39234-5

1-299-38654-7

1-134-32925-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (173 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Collana

New sociology

Disciplina

306.4/613

Soggetti

Human body - Social aspects

Human body in popular culture

Human figure in art

Body image

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction: enter the body -- Performing the body -- Performing gender : the body in question -- Ethnographies of the body : absent-presence -- Older bodies : performing age, ageing and invisibility.

Sommario/riassunto

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 use