Exploring the Body (Explorations in Sociology)
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Description for Exploring the Body (Explorations in Sociology)
Hardcover. This volume explores diverse ways of researching and theorizing the body. It draws together a range of work and different approaches to researching the body are examined through these contributions which include autobiography, case studies, interviews and participant observation. Editor(s): Cunningham-Burley, Sarah; Backett-Milburn, Kathryn. Series: Explorations in Sociology. Num Pages: 267 pages, biography. BIC Classification: GPS; JFF; JMAL. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 203 x 127 x 20. Weight in Grams: 512.
This volume explores diverse ways of researching and theorizing the body. It draws together a range of empirical work on different themes, each taking the body and its study as its central problematic. It creatively combines contributions on disability, illness, scars, sleep, complementary medicine, running, as well as the lifecourse themes of childhood, youth and death. The different approaches to researching the body examined through these contributions include autobiography, case-studies, interviews and participant observation.
This volume explores diverse ways of researching and theorizing the body. It draws together a range of empirical work on different themes, each taking the body and its study as its central problematic. It creatively combines contributions on disability, illness, scars, sleep, complementary medicine, running, as well as the lifecourse themes of childhood, youth and death. The different approaches to researching the body examined through these contributions include autobiography, case-studies, interviews and participant observation.
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan
Number of pages
272
Condition
New
Series
Explorations in Sociology
Number of Pages
246
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780333775950
SKU
V9780333775950
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Ref
99-15
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KATHRYN BURNETT Lecturer in Sociology, University of Paisley PAI CHRISTENSEN Lecturer in Anthropology and Co-Director of the Centre for the Social Study of Childhood, University of Hull BRIAN HEAPHY Senior Lecturer in Sociology, Nottingham Trent University MARY HOLMES Lecturer in Sociology, University of Aberdeen ALLISON JAMES Reader in Applied Anthropology, University of Hull CHRIS JENKS Professor of Sociology and Pro-Warden ... Read more
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