Social Bodies
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: February 5, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 200
ISBN-13: 9780691037202
Subjects: Anthropology; Population & demography; Symbolic aspects; Political Science; Government policy; Politics / Current Events; Social aspects; Politics/International Relations; Italy; Politics - Current Events; Demography; History & Theory - General; European History; Gender Studies; Political Science / History & Theory; Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural; Fertility, Human; Body, Human
First sentence: IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY, the status of the "social" as an object of scientific knowledge (including anthropological knowledge) and of technical interventions is so familiar as to risk being taken for granted.