Helen Thomas & Jamilah Ahmed 
Cultural Bodies 
Ethnography and Theory

Cultural Bodies: Ethnography and Theory is a unique collection that integrates two increasingly key areas of social and cultural research: the body and ethnography.

* 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

* Draws on ethnography as a useful means of exploring our everyday social and cultural environments

* Constitutes an important step in developing two key areas of study, the body and ethnography, and the relationship between them

* Brings together an international and multi-disciplinary team of scholars

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Acknowledgements.

Notes on Contributors.

Introduction.

Part I: Ethnography:.

1. Inscriptions of Love: Les Back (Goldsmiths College).

2. From Catwalk to Catalogue: Male Fashion Models, Masculinity
and Identity: Joan Entwistle (University of Essex).

3. Reading Racialized Bodies: Learning to See Difference: Suki
Ali (Goldsmiths College).

4. Narratives of Embodiment: Body, Aging and Career in Royal
Ballet Dancers: Steven P. Wainwright and Bryan S. Turner
(King’s College; University of Cambridge).

Part II: Ethnography and Theory:.

5. Being a Body in a Cultural Way: Understanding the Cultural in
the Embodiment of Dance: Sally Ann Allen Ness (University of
California, Riverside).

6. Bare Life: Nigel Thrift (University of Bristol).

7. Lolo’s Breasts, Cyborgism and a Wooden Christ: Simon
Shepherd (Central School).

8. Talking Back to Neuro-reductionism: Emily Martin (New York
University).

Part III: Theory:.

9. Eating for a Living: A Rhizo-ethology of Bodies: Elspeth
Probyn (University of Sydney).

10. Health and the Holy in the Afro Brazilian Candomblé:
Thomas Csordas (Case Western Reserve University).

11. Here Comes the Sun: Shedding Light on the Cultural Body:
Simon Carter and Mike Michael (London School of Hygiene and
Tropical Medicine; Goldsmiths College).

12. Reaching the Body: Future Directions: Jamilah Ahmed.

Index

Sobre el autor

Helen Thomas is Professor of Sociology of Dance and Culture
at Goldsmiths College. Her publications include Dance, Modernity
and Culture: Explorations in the Sociology of Dance (1995),
Dance and the City (editor, 1997), and The Body, Dance
and Cultural Theory (2003).

Jamilah Ahmed gained her Ph D from Goldsmiths College.
She is currently an editor at Sage Publications.