 Cultural bodies, ethnography and theory.
Author: Thomas, Helen Published: 2004 A collection of essays 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, and this book breaks new ground by refusing to neglect the experiential and the empirical. Bringing together and international and multidisciplinary team of scholars, Cultural Bodies 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. Contributors include Les Back, Joanne Entwistle, Suki Ali, Steven P Wainwright, Bryan S Turner, Sally Ann Allen Ness, Nigel Therift, Simon Shepherd, mily Martin, Elspeth Probyn, Thomas J Csordas, Simon Carter, Mike Michael, and Jamilah Ahmed. |
