Cultural Bodies Ethnography and Theory [Paperback]

• 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

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:.

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