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Record Nr.

UNINA9910789165403321

Titolo

Corporeality : the body and society / / edited by Cassandra A. Ogden and Stephen Wakeman ; series editor, Katherine Harrison

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chester, [England] : , : University of Chester Press, , 2013

©2013

ISBN

1-908258-54-3

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (181 p.)

Collana

Issues in the Social Sciences ; ; 8

Altri autori (Persone)

OgdenCassandra A

WakemanStephen

HarrisonKatherine

Disciplina

305.4093

Soggetti

Social archaeology

Human body - Social aspects - History

Human body - Symbolic aspects - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Sommario/riassunto

Regardless of how a person spends her or his day, in a classroom, in work or outside employment, whatever our thoughts, beliefs and experiences of life, all living is embodied. We are of and within our bodies. During the last thirty years, social scientists have increasingly turned their attention to the body as a site of both theoretical engagement and empirical exploration. Recently, public discourse has also become preoccupied with embodied debates: the obesity crisis and the London 2012 Paralympics have located the body firmly in the realm of public interest. The new essays collected in Co