Interpreting the Body

Between Meaning and Matter
Written by leading social scientists, this ambitious volume asks what individuals' "handling" of bodies reveal about inequality, social order and cultural change in societies.

Written by leading social scientists working in and across a variety of analytic traditions, this ambitious, insightful volume explores interpretation as a focal metaphor for understanding the body’s influence, meaning, and matter in society.

Interpreting body and embodiment in social movements, health and medicine, race, sex and gender, globalization, colonialism, education, and other contexts, the book’s chapters call into question taken-for-granted ideas of where the self, the social world, and the body begin and end.

Encouraging reflection and opening new perspectives on theories of the body that cut through the classic mind/body divide, this is an important contribution to the literature on the body.

Contributor: Sweta Rajan-Rankin (Contributions by), Mrinalini Greedharry (Contributions by), Lee Monaghan (Contributions by), Piper Sledge (Contributions by), Erin F. Johnston (Contributions by), Brittney Miles (Contributions by), Chandra Russo (Contributions by), Annemarie Jutel (Contributions by), Anne Marie Champagne (Edited by), Asia Friedman (Edited by), Ben Spatz (Contributions by), Kathryn Linn Geurts (Contributions by), Sefakore Komabu-Pomeyie (Contributions by)

Pages: 282

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