Cultural Bodies - by Helen Thomas & Jamilah Ahmed (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><i>Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory</i> is a unique collection that integrates two increasingly key areas of social and cultural research: the body and ethnography. <br /> <ul> <li>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</li> <li>Draws on ethnography as a useful means of exploring our everyday social and cultural environments</li> <li>Constitutes an important step in developing two key areas of study, the body and ethnography, and the relationship between them</li> <li>Brings together an international and multi-disciplinary team of scholars</li> </ul><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br><i>Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory</i> is a unique collection that integrates two increasingly key areas of social and cultural research: the body and ethnography. "The body" continues to be a central theme of debate and research across the humanities and social sciences and in subjects such as gender, race, identity, and science and technology. However, existing literature on the body has taken a largely theoretical direction. <i>Cultural Bodies</i> breaks new ground by refusing to neglect the experiential and the empirical.<br /> <p> Bringing together an international and multidisciplinary team of scholars, <i>Cultural Bodies</i> draws on ethnography as a useful means of exploring our everyday social and cultural environments and, in doing so, demonstrates the constant need for researchers and their research to be made accountable to readers. In this way, ethnography reveals as much about the frameworks of social research as it does about the societies that they move in and out of. By focusing on the body and ethnography, <i>Cultural Bodies</i> constitutes an important step in developing these two key areas of study and the relationship between them.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>An interdisciplinary text that offers cutting-edge theoretical and methodological means for analyzing, understanding, and imagining how the body materializes in cultural historical context and practice. <i>Heidi Nast, DePaul University</i> <br /> <p>Bringing together some of the most challenging contemporary research, this theoretical, empirical, experimental work presents a unique interdisciplinary understanding of how the body speaks, moves and interacts. It is fascinating, making visible some of the unknown and unseen parts and wholes of the body by exploring the materiality of physicality. <i>Beverley Skeggs, University of Manchester</i></p><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Helen Thomas</b> is Professor of Sociology of Dance and Culture at Goldsmiths College. Her publications include <i>Dance, Modernity and Culture: Explorations in the Sociology of Dance</i> (1995), <i>Dance and the City</i> (editor, 1997), and <i>The Body, Dance and Cultural Theory</i> (2003).<br /> <p> <b>Jamilah Ahmed</b> gained her PhD from Goldsmiths College. She is currently an editor at Sage Publications.</p>
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