The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: September 6, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 256
ISBN-13: 9780333724316
Subjects: Cultural studies; Dance; Sociology, Social Studies; Performing Arts; Pop Arts / Pop Culture; Performing Arts/Dance; Dance - General; Popular Culture - General; Performing Arts / Dance / General; Performing Arts-Dance - General; Social Science / Popular Culture; Anthropological aspects; Body, Human; Social aspects
First sentence: I shall begin this initial discussion of developments in approaches to the study of the body in contemporary western culture with an anecdotal account which I hope will point to recent shifts in discourses of, and around, the body.