Embodying sociology
Subtitle: retrospect, progress, and prospects
By: edited by Chris Shilling
Contributors: Shilling, Chris
Edition: 1st ed
Series: Sociological review monograph
Publisher: Blackwell Pub.
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 169
ISBN-13: 9781405167949
Subjects: Body, Human -- Social aspects
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Table of contents: title: Sociology and the body : classical traditions and new agendas / Chris Shilling; title: Culture, technologies, and bodies : the technological utopia of living forever / Bryan S. Turner; title: Reclaiming women's bodies : colonialist trope or critical epistemology? / Kathy Davis; title: Fieldwork embodied / Judith Okely; title: Researching embodiment by way of "body techniques" / Nick Crossley; title: Breathing like a soldier : culture incarnate / Brian Lande; title: Listening to the dancer's body / Anna Aalten; title: Embodied knowledge in glassblowing : the experience of meaning and the struggle towards proficiency / Erin O'Connor; title: Vulnerable/dangerous bodies? : the trials and tribulations of sleep / Simon J. Williams