Embodying Cape Town: Engaging the City through its Built Edges and Contact Zones

Author:   Shannon M. Jackson
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
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9781349954537


Pages:   202
Publication Date:   29 July 2018
Format:   Paperback
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Embodying Cape Town: Engaging the City through its Built Edges and Contact Zones


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This book examines the reciprocity that exists between the body and the urban built environment.  It will draw on archival and ethnographic research as well as an interdisciplinary literature on cultural materialism, semiotics, and aesthetics to challenge dualist interpretations of four different points of historical-material contact in Cape Town, South Africa. Each chapter attends to different groups, social practices, and historical periods, but all share the fundamental questions:  how does material culture reflect the way social agents make meaning through bodily contact with urban built form, and how does such meaning challenge the ways bodies are objectified?  Further, how can we make sense of the historical processes embedded in the objectification of bodies without treating the social and the material, the mental and the physical as separate realities? 

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Author:   Shannon M. Jackson
Publisher:   Palgrave Macmillan
Imprint:   Palgrave Macmillan
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017
Weight:   0.454kg
ISBN:  

9781349954537


ISBN 10:   1349954535
Pages:   202
Publication Date:   29 July 2018
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Manufactured on demand   Availability explained
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction.-2. Making Englishness.-3. Forgetting District Six.-4. Redistributing Personhood.-5. Alternative by Design.

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Shannon M. Jackson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at University of Missouri, Kansas, USA.

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