Physical Culture, Ethnography and the Body 9781351970594, 9781138290068, 9781315266602

Sport, Physical Culture, and the Moving Body: Materialisms, Technologies, Ecologies 9780813591858

2020 Choice​ Outstanding Academic Title The moving body—pervasively occupied by fitness activities, intense training and

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Nietzsche: The Body and Culture 9781472547095, 9780485113914

First published in France in 1987, this book provides a definitive account of how to read and interpret Nietzsche, given

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Talking Culture: Ethnography and Conversation Analysis 9780812200355

Argues that anyone—anthropologist, psychologist, or policeman—who uses what people say to find out what people think had

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Inventing the New Negro: Narrative, Culture, and Ethnography 9780812204049

Daphne Lamothe explores how many black writers and intellectuals in the early twentieth century adapted ethnography and

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Pierre Bourdieu and Physical Culture 9780415829694, 9780203628744

The work of French sociologist, anthropologist and philosopher Pierre Bourdieu has been influential across a set of cogn

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Body Fascism: Salvation in the Technology of Physical Fitness 9781442671485

Brian Pronger argues that a technological approach to fitness transforms more than the body's functions and contour

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The Prostitute's Body: Rewriting Prostitution in Victorian Britain (The Body, Gender and Culture) 9781848930063

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Unbearable weight: feminism, Western culture, and the body 9780520240544

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Religion, Dress and the Body: Dress, Body, Culture 9781847888839, 9781859732922, 9781859732977

Religions constrain the bodies of their members through dress. In many cases, dress immediately identifies a member of t

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Body by Breath: The Science and Practice of Physical and Emotional Resilience

In the hierarchy of life, breath always wins. It persists 22,000 times daily, but you get to decide whether the way you

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