Cargando…

African realities : body, culture and social tensions /

"African Realities: Body, Culture and Social Tensions is the result of research anthropology work carried out in different African countries, mainly in Equatorial Guinea, but also in Senegal, Cabo Verde, Benin and Ethiopia. All the different chapters of this volume address a diversity of subjec...

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Martí i Pérez, Josep (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000 i 4500
001 EBSCO_ocn893420515
003 OCoLC
005 20231017213018.0
006 m o d
007 cr cnu---unuuu
008 141020t20142014enka ob 000 0 eng d
040 |a N$T  |b eng  |e rda  |e pn  |c N$T  |d EBLCP  |d E7B  |d YDXCP  |d WAU  |d DEBSZ  |d IDEBK  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCF  |d OCLCQ  |d CNCGM  |d OCLCQ  |d NLE  |d UKMGB  |d UKAHL  |d OCLCQ  |d K6U  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO 
015 |a GBB6F7714  |2 bnb 
016 7 |a 017859361  |2 Uk 
019 |a 892799115 
020 |a 9781443868402  |q (electronic book) 
020 |a 144386840X  |q (electronic book) 
020 |z 9781443860260  |q (cloth) 
020 |z 1443860263  |q (cloth) 
029 1 |a CHNEW  |b 000700348 
029 1 |a CHNEW  |b 000700350 
029 1 |a DEBSZ  |b 431793948 
029 1 |a GBVCP  |b 798117966 
029 1 |a UKMGB  |b 017859361 
035 |a (OCoLC)893420515  |z (OCoLC)892799115 
037 |a 9781443868402  |b Cambridge Scholars Publishing 
043 |a f------ 
050 4 |a GT497.A35  |b A47 2014 
072 7 |a SOC  |x 002010  |2 bisacsh 
072 7 |a SOC  |x 026000  |2 bisacsh 
072 7 |a SOC  |x 005000  |2 bisacsh 
082 0 4 |a 300.72  |2 23 
049 |a UAMI 
245 0 0 |a African realities :  |b body, culture and social tensions /  |c edited by Josep Martí. 
264 1 |a Newcastle upon Tyne :  |b Cambridge Scholars Publishing,  |c 2014. 
264 4 |c ©2014 
300 |a 1 online resource (277 pages) :  |b illustrations 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references. 
505 0 |a Part I. Youth's bodies -- Part II. Gender issues -- Part III. Tradition-modernity dialectics -- Part IV. Bodies as strategies in the social arena. 
520 |a "African Realities: Body, Culture and Social Tensions is the result of research anthropology work carried out in different African countries, mainly in Equatorial Guinea, but also in Senegal, Cabo Verde, Benin and Ethiopia. All the different chapters of this volume address a diversity of subjects related to relevant issues, such as gender, age, social class, ethnicity and coloniality, which are indispensable for understanding current African realities. Furthermore, all of these chapters investigate the importance people place on the body and, more concretely, the manner in which these people present it to others as a common denominator. After a brief theoretical introduction about the key concept of the book -- the social presentation of the body -- the contributors analyse the results of their own fieldwork, taking as a starting point the central role that the body plays in the relationship between the individual and society. As is clearly shown in this book, the social presentation of the body matters. From a general and structural point of view it matters because of its great significance within social logics, but it also matters because of its relevant role in situational dynamics of social interaction, and because of its close relationship with the emotional registers of individuals. If the issue related to the social presentation of the body has an undoubted interest for the academic milieu, it is also true that it has great social relevance and constitutes an undeniable political concern. The policies related to the social presentation of the body serve to mark, justify, maintain or even build hierarchical relationships of social order, at the level of class, gender, ethnicity or age. Throughout the book, and from the African studies perspective, different views are offered concerning how the body, being not only medium of expression, but at the same time a site of experience and construction of the self, appears in the centre of social tensions and is an object of strategy, control or resistance"--Provided by publisher 
588 0 |a Print version record. 
590 |a eBooks on EBSCOhost  |b EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - Worldwide 
650 0 |a Human body  |x Social aspects  |z Africa. 
650 0 |a Human body  |x Symbolic aspects  |z Africa. 
650 6 |a Corps humain  |x Aspect social  |z Afrique. 
650 6 |a Corps humain  |x Aspect symbolique  |z Afrique. 
650 7 |a Society & social sciences.  |2 bicssc 
650 7 |a Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography.  |2 bicssc 
650 7 |a African history.  |2 bicssc 
650 7 |a SOCIAL SCIENCE  |x Anthropology  |x Cultural.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a SOCIAL SCIENCE  |x Sociology  |x General.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a SOCIAL SCIENCE  |x Customs & Traditions.  |2 bisacsh 
650 7 |a Human body  |x Social aspects  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Human body  |x Symbolic aspects  |2 fast 
651 7 |a Africa  |2 fast 
700 1 |a Martí i Pérez, Josep,  |e editor. 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |t African realities.  |d Newcastle upon Tyne : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2014  |z 1443860263  |w (OCoLC)885014587 
856 4 0 |u https://ebsco.uam.elogim.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=860144  |z Texto completo 
938 |a Askews and Holts Library Services  |b ASKH  |n AH27265448 
938 |a ProQuest Ebook Central  |b EBLB  |n EBL1810281 
938 |a ebrary  |b EBRY  |n ebr10949474 
938 |a EBSCOhost  |b EBSC  |n 860144 
938 |a ProQuest MyiLibrary Digital eBook Collection  |b IDEB  |n cis29862111 
938 |a YBP Library Services  |b YANK  |n 12104707 
994 |a 92  |b IZTAP