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OverviewThis 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? Full Product DetailsAuthor: Shannon M. JacksonPublisher: Palgrave Macmillan Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan Edition: Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2017 Weight: 0.454kg ISBN: 9781349954537ISBN 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 We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Table of Contents1. Introduction.-2. Making Englishness.-3. Forgetting District Six.-4. Redistributing Personhood.-5. Alternative by Design.ReviewsAuthor InformationShannon M. Jackson is Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology/Anthropology at University of Missouri, Kansas, USA. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |